Playing with Fire (26 page)
Authors: Melody Carlson
lot of responsibility—
Bad Connection.
She seems like your average teen, but Samantha McGregor is unusually gifted. God gives her visions and dreams that offer unconventional glimpses into other people's lives and problems. In this first book in the Secret Life of Samantha McGregor series, Kayla Henderson is missing, and everyone, including Samantha, assumes she ran away. But then Samantha has a vision. If Kayla really is in danger, then time is running out!
Beyond Reach;
Garrett Pierson is one of those quiet, academic types. When Samantha, his chemistry partner, tries to draw him out, he shuts her down and requests a new partner. One day when Samantha prays for him, she has a vision of Garrett teetering on a railroad bridge—and then falling backwards, just beyond reach! What does this vision mean, and…where is Garrett, anyway?
Look for Payback Releasing in Spring 2008
Available in bookstores and from online retailers.
In a diary format, this series captures the thoughts, emotions, and experiences of three very different teenage girls. Caitlin is a very sweet, strong Christian who's taken a non-dating stance; Chloe is a rock musician who's an extreme teen for Christ; and Kim is a Korean adoptee who's pursuing an authentic faith.
Faced with her son's crystal meth addiction and her husband's affair, Glennis Harmon searches for the ways she can best reach and help those she deeply loves.
Real-life struggles. A family's pain.
A hope for healing.
Bright and ambitious, college student Alice Laxtonis diagnosed with schizophrenia—and embarks on a painful and eye-opening journey toward recovery and healing.
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PLAYING WITH FIRE
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Scripture quotations are taken from the King James Version.
The characters and events in this book are fictional, and any resemblance
to actual persons or events is coincidental.
Copyright © 2007 by Carlson Management Co. Inc.
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Carlson, Melody.
Playing with fire: a novel/Melody Carlson.
p. cm. — (The secret life of Samantha McGregor; bk. 3)
Summary: Just before her older brother is due to return from a drug
rehabilitation clinic, Sam has a dream about an explosion in a place she
believes may be associated with illegal drugs, but she is unsure if this is a
vision from God since she is the only person appearing in it. Includes discussion
questions, list of key scriptural passages, and suggestions for
finding more information about dreams and visions on Web sites.
eISBN: 978-0-307-56177-0
[1. Christian life—Fiction. 2. Visions—Fiction. 3. Brothers and sisters-
Fiction. 4. Drugs—Fiction. 5. Drug abuse—Fiction. 6. High schools—Fiction.
7. Schools—Fiction.] I. Title.
PZ7.C216637Pla2007
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