The Forbidden Game: The Chase

He's back -- and coming to claim her at last!

Reading Level: Young Adult
Mass Market Paperback -- 320 pages (May 1994)
Archway; ISBN: 0671874527
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THEY'RE PLAYING THE GAME OF THEIR LIVES Why is her boyfriend Tom avoiding her -- while other boys pursue her as never before? Jenny Thornton has changed. So have her friends. Because of Julian, the Shadow Man, who has returned to terrorize them with a new game, a hunting game. Lambs and Monsters. They're the lambs, to be stalked, pounced upon, and lost to the Shadow World forevermore. The monsters are the Lurker, a ghostly wolf, and the Creeper, a phantom snake. One by one, Jenny's friends disappear, leaving behind only a paper doll -- and a riddle with clues about who will be next ... Jenny must find Julian's hidden base and save her friends before it's too late. but how can she resist the predatory prince of darkness who has returned to make her his own?

HE'S COME TO CLAIM WHAT'S HIS ...

First UK Printing:
Mass Market Paperback -- 226 Pages (1994)
Scholastic Publications Ltd (Point Horror); ISBN: 0590131567

IF YOU RUN, THEY CHASE YOU ...

When Jenny buys The Game from Julian, the gorgeous stranger with dangerous blue eyes, she little realizes the stakes involved. Because this is a game like no other, and soon she and her friends are playing for their lives...
Trapped in a house of horrors, running from the Shadow Man; this game is for real. The rules are Julian's, and Jenny is the prize. And if he wins, she's his for ever...

German cover and Translation courtesy of Sunny Lennox

Come dance with me:

"Monster and lambs" is the horrible game called to which the iridescent Julian persuades her and even though Jenny knows that she risks her life and soul she cannot resist the prince of darkness
Jenny's heartbeat nearly stops when she faces Julian and the dance with him conjures up the beliefs defeated horror anew so she stays firm enough to withstand the shadowman's tempting caresses. she says yes to a new game with him under the spell of his iceblue eyes. The rules are the same: if she and her friends win the fight against monsters and demons they are free, if not Jenny is the price - and she is going to follow the prince of darkness into his shadowworld forever...