Rarities Unlimited 02 - Running Scared

told around urban campfires, stories which point out that life is not a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury and signifying nothing. There is more to life than defeat and despair. Life is full of possibilities. Victory is one of them. Joy is another.
    And that’s why people read popular fiction. To be reminded that life is worth the pain.
    — Elizabeth Lowell

    (This essay was originally published at www.elizabethlowell.com, a partner of www.writerspace.com.)

About the Author
    Elizabeth Lowell’s many remarkable historical and contemporary novels include New York Times bestsellers, Moving Target , and the four acclaimed books featuring the Donovan family, Amber Beach , Jade Island , Pearl Cove , and Midnight in Ruby Bayou , as well as, Forget Me Not , Only Love , A Woman Without Lies , Autumn Love , Winter Fire . Ms. Lowell has more than 20 million books in print. She lives in Seattle, Washington, with her husband with whom she writes mystery novels under a pseudonym. She can be contacted at www.elizabethlowell.com.
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BOOKS BY ELIZABETH LOWELL
    Amber Beach
Autumn Lover
Beautiful Dreamer
Desert Rain
Eden Burning
Enchanted
Forbidden
Forget Me Not
Jade Island
Lover in the Rough
Midnight in Ruby Bayou
Moving Target
Only His
Only Love
Only Mine
Only You
Pearl Cove
Remember Summer
To the Ends of the Earth
Where the Heart Is
Winter Fire
A Woman Without Lies

Credits
    Cover design by: Bradford Foltz
Cover photocollage: skyline by D. Boone/Corbis

Copyright
    This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places and incidents either are the products of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual events, locales, organizations, or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental and beyond the intent of either the author or the publisher.
    RUNNING SCARED. Copyright © 2002 by Two of a Kind, Inc. All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. By payment of the required fees, you have been granted the non-exclusive, non-transferable right to access and read the text of this e-book on-screen. No part of this text may be reproduced, transmitted, down-loaded, decompiled, reverse engineered, or stored in or introduced into any information storage and retrieval system, in any form or by any means, whether electronic or mechanical, now known or hereinafter invented, without the express written permission of HarperCollins e-books.
    HarperCollins e-book extra: "Popular Fiction: Why We Read It, Why We Write It" copyright © 1999-2002 by Two of a Kind, Inc. This essay was originally published at www.elizabethlowell.com, a partner of www.writerspace.com.
    EPub Edition © APRIL 2002 ISBN: 9780061798405
    Print edition first published in 2002 by HarperCollins Publishers, Inc.
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