INNOCENT ADORATION ESCALATES TO STALKING AND ABDUCTION IN THIS PSYCHOLOGICAL THRILLER. Eddie is a brilliant yet emotionally impaired teenager. He has spent most of his school years in special education classes, placed there by an unloving mother who blames her son for his father's death. His exile among the unpopular students serves to keep him invisible to Rebecca. An uncontrollable fixation on her drives him to devise a plan to pull her into his world and win her over. He abducts her. She escapes. Then she makes a wrong choice and he traps her again. If she befriends the fragile boy who wants her, can she change his evil intentions? Can there be forgiveness in this haunting story of obsession and fear? EDGE OF ESCAPE, TRANSLATED INTO GERMAN AND RE-TITLED SOMMERFALLE, WAS CHOSEN AS A PREMIER BOOK IN A NEW LINE OF YOUNG ADULT THRILLERS IN GERMANY.
Debra Chapoton grew up fascinated by codes and intricate puzzles, later graduating to treasure hunts and road rallies. She loves to weave clues into her novels and, after a career teaching high school Spanish and English, she peppers her novels with the personalities of former students. Her YA novels, including SHELTERED and THE GUARDIAN'S DIARY, handle the heavier themes of adolescence while her children's novels stick to the puzzling side of pre-teen life. EDGE OF ESCAPE was chosen as a premier book in a new line of young adult thrillers in Germany. It has enjoyed great success in Europe as well as here in America.