Autorentext

Joy Fielding is an internationally bestselling author. Her novella, Home Invasion, was the winner of the Golden Oak Award. Five of her novels have been made into TV movies. She was named Author of the Year in 2005 by the Canada News Group. She was born in Toronto, Canada, and went to the University of Toronto, where she obtained her B.A. after majoring in English. Her acting ambitions took her to Hollywood, where she got a part in an episode of "Gunsmoke." She returned to Toronto to pursue her love of writing. Fielding currently divides her time between Toronto and Palm Springs.

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This high-interest, low-vocabulary novella is intended for adult basic education (ABE) and English as a Second Language (ESL) readers. Kathy Brown suddenly wakes up. Was that a noise in the house, or part of her dream? In her dream, Kathy was about to kiss Michael, her high school boyfriend. Her husband, Jack, lies beside her, snoring. Michael is exciting. Jack is boring. When Kathy hears the noise again, she gets up. Then she hears whispers. Then she feels a gun at her head. Two men are in the house. Kathy and her husband face a living nightmare. Kathy must also face her real feelings about her husband. The outcome surprises everyone, most of all Kathy herself.