"Dylan O’Connor is a gifted young artist just trying to do the right thing in life. He’s on his way to an arts festival in Santa Fe when he stops to get a room for himself and his twenty-year-old autistic brother, Shep. But in a nightmarish instant, Dylan is attacked by a mysterious “doctor,” injected with a strange substance, and told that he is now a carrier of something that will either kill him...or transform his life in the most remarkable way. Then he is told that he must flee--before the doctor’s enemies hunt him down for the secret circulating through his body. No one can help him, the doctor says, not even the police.

Stunned, disbelieving, Dylan is turned loose to run for his life...and straight into an adventure that will turn the next twenty-four hours into an odyssey of terror, mystery--and wondrous discovery. It is a journey that begins when Dylan and Shep’s path intersects with that of Jillian Jackson. Before that evening Jilly was a beautiful comedian whose biggest worry was whether she would ever find a decent man. Now she too is a carrier. And even as Dylan tries to convince her that they’ll be safer sticking together, cold-eyed men in a threatening pack of black Suburbans approach, only seconds before Jilly’s classic Coupe DeVille explodes into thin air.

Now the three are on the run together, but with no idea whom they’re running from--or why. Meanwhile Shep has begun exhibiting increasingly disturbing behavior. And whatever it is that’s coursing through their bodies seems to have plunged them into one waking nightmare after another. Seized by sinister premonitions, they find themselves inexplicably drawn to crime scenes--just minutes before the crimes take place.

What this unfathomable power is, how they can use it to stop the evil erupting all around them, and why they have been chosen are only parts of a puzzle that reaches back into the tragic past and the dark secrets they all share: secrets of madness, pain, and untimely death. Perhaps the answer lies in the eerie, enigmatic messages that Shep, with precious time running out, begins to repeat, about an entity who does his work “by the light of the moon.”"

Before I read this book, it's traveling in a bookring! Here are the participants so far:

AngelfireStar (US only)
tania-in-nc (US only)
krin511 (MD)

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Mailed to Angelfirestar today as a bookring!

TBR. Have a couple books ahead of this one but will read ASAP.

Great book. It wasn't a fast read but it kept my interest. I loved the ending and the arguements between characters. Sorry for the delay in the ring but it has been sent out.

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Not sure when it was sent but it's in the mail to tania-in-nc. Sorry again for the delay.

Ah, the joy of getting a yellow envelope in the mail! This book arrived safely today. I do have a couple of bookrings ahead of it but I am a fast reader. Thanks for sharing :)

To be after Spring Fancy by Annette Broadrick, Lass Small & Kasey Michaels, c. 1993

I collect quotes as I read. These ones are fun, poetical, or even philosophical. Take what you like, and leave the rest. Note that these aren't necessarily the "best" in the book. These happen to be close to the spot where I stopped reading each night.

Blacker than the barren land in this moonlit gloom, the highway sometimes seemed to unravel ahead of the Expedition, leading Jilly and the brothers O'Conner into chaos and oblivion. At other times, however, it appeared instead to be raveling itself up from chaos and into an orderly ball, steadily winding them toward a righteously plotted and inescapable destiny.
She didn't know which possibility scared her more: running into an ever thornier and more tangled thicket of troubles, into a briar patch where every prickling turn brought her to another sanitty-shaking encounter with the unknown - or discovering the identity of ... [stopping the quote as it contains spoilers] p85

He was surprised that the prospect of novelty had so much appeal for him. He had long conceived himsself to be a man of constancy, who respected tradition, who loved what was immemorial and did not share the interest in newness for the sake of newness that had made this society so rootless and so in love with flash. p271

The book arrived home yesterday. Thanks for everyone's participation and comments!

I finished this book yesterday. I enjoyed the story, especially as Dylan, Jilly and Shep discover their new abilities.

Reserved for sunlightbub.

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Mailed to three104 for sunlightbub's M-bag!

This arrived the other day. I read this a long time ago but remember a bizarre ending. I will journal again when shipped. Thanks for enclosed envelope.

Shipping today.

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I've not read much by this author, so interested in how I find this one..Thanks guys xxxxxxxxxxx

Making this available as having a clearout!