Freeman's Perils — Frederick A. Babb

In a world where fame comes as easy as ordering a hamburger, Bart Freeman devises the ultimate promotional gimmick. With the resources from hitting it big in the state lottery and the ambition to make it to the top in the designer clothing world, he sponsors the "Discover America" contest to choose five beautiful ladies to promote his new line of designer clothes. The media devours his idea and overexposure quickly makes him the hottest commodity in the country. But, as five fortunate ladies prepare for a summer tour to all fifty states, someone has other plans for them. Their plans begin to unfold and their dreams will come crashing down hard around them as beatings, bombings, murders and kidnapping upstage the marketing scheme that Bart worked so hard for. The tour quickly becomes of little interest to them as their very survival hinges on their ability to stop this person before they are eliminated. There would be no help from the media as Bart and the five ladies rapidly form as a team to save something more than the tour. They would have to discover who was behind all of this brutality and why the wanted to see them all dead.