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conversations.value: Give me a description for a book titled One Scream Away about Bankes, Beth, Beth's with the genre: Romance, Romantic Suspense.
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conversations.value: Music professor the author launches into her romantic suspense debut with a woman's torture-murder at the hands of clever but crazy serial killer Chevy Bankes. Using the dead woman's phone, he calls Beth Denison, who is haunted by seven years of secrets and terror, and threatens Beth's daughter, Abby. As Bankes continues roaming the Seattle area and torturing women to death, Neil Sheridan, a burned-out ex-FBI agent, joins the investigation through a connection to one of Bankes's earlier murders. Beth and Neil share emotional damage and attraction, revealing their secrets at a lugubrious pace. Their mutual unmasking parallels the desperate dig for clues, but as they race to find Bankes, he invades Beth's home to lie in wait. Snappy dialogue, good police procedural details and twisty psychology create white-hot tension that thriller fans will love, overwhelming the slow, bare-bones romance. <I>(July)</I> <BR>Copyright &copy; Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
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conversations.value: Give me the first three paragraphs for this book.
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conversations.value: One Scream Away
  Having based the new trilogy on fourteenth-century events described in an unpublished sixteenth-century manuscript in Broad Scot (a language somewhat like Robert Burns poetry only more indecipherable), I quickly saw that the research would take longer than usual and decided that some issues would be clearer to readers if introduced from more than one perspective. For example, in Scotland, unlike England, if a man had no sons, his eldest daughter became his heir. So a baron's daughter, even with countless male cousins, could become a baroness in her own right, or an earl's daughter a countess, with all the powers and privileges of the rank... as Bonnie Jenny does.
  However, Jenny's father, having refused to remarry after the death of his beloved wife, raised Jenny to understand, as well as he understood them himself, the position and duties she would one day assume. So imagine her shock when he dies while she is still unwed and underage. Then imagine her even greater shock when her guardian (an uncle) and his wife decide to marry her to the wife's younger brother in order to provide that obnoxious creature with a tidy income and—as they suppose—a fine, ancient title.
  Because they have moved Jenny miles from her home in Easdale to their own home in Annandale, she believes she has no choice but to obey them. That attitude, however, lasts only until her betrothal feast. Repulsed by the man to whom they have betrothed her, Jenny escapes with the minstrel troupe hired to entertain their guests.
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conversations.value: Her uncle, finding her intended groom incapacitated from far too much whisky at the feast, asks Sir Hugh Douglas, the lad's older brother, to retrieve Jenny.
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conversations.value: Give me the last five paragraphs.
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conversations.value: Because they have moved Jenny miles from her home in Easdale to their own home in Annandale, she believes she has no choice but to obey them. That attitude, however, lasts only until her betrothal feast. Repulsed by the man to whom they have betrothed her, Jenny escapes with the minstrel troupe hired to entertain their guests.
  Her uncle, finding her intended groom incapacitated from far too much whisky at the feast, asks Sir Hugh Douglas, the lad's older brother, to retrieve Jenny.
  Sir Hugh, a knight, experienced warrior, and member in high standing of the all-powerful Douglas clan—and rudely awakened from well-earned sleep—curtly refuses. Because he is also a widower with a large estate of his own to manage, he takes little interest in his brother's affairs and even less in Jenny's problems. But, Dunwythie persuades him by appealing to his sense of honor and family duty.
  Naturally, being a strong-minded male with considerable ingenuity who rarely changes tack once he has made a decision, Hugh has made up his mind without giving a single thought to Jenny's feelings. So when she politely but firmly declines his "invitation" to return with him to her uncle's household, explaining that before she can do so she has a mystery to solve...
  Well, let's just say that TAMED BY A LAIRD pits a powerful, rebellious young baroness against an equally powerful, determined baron and lets the sparks fly wherever they will.