The Winner

LuAnn Tyler is a twenty-year-old unwed mother in Rikersville, Georgia, a woman who can use her fists as well as her wits, a woman striving to escape an abusive relationship and a life of endless poverty. Suddenly, under the pretense of giving her a decent job, a mysterious Mr. Jackson makes her an offer he thinks no one can refuse: a guarantee to be the next winner of the $100 million national lottery. But LuAnn won't do it. At first. Then, less than twenty-four hours later, she is fighting for her life and running from a false murder charge. Jackson's offer - and its condition that she leave the country forever - seems to be her only hope. She accepts his proposition and the new life the unlimited wealth buys her and her infant daughter. Ten years later, LuAnn disobeys Jackson and secretly returns to the United States, where she is still wanted for murder. There, she meets Matthew Riggs, a man whose origins are as murky and troublesome as her own. LuAnn's life is shattered when a canny reporter smelling a scam in the national lottery picks up her trail, and Jackson, a seemingly omniscient master of impersonation, comes to punish her for disobeying him. At the same time, the FBI is set on her track when investigators suspect someone may have fixed the lottery. While the hunters close in for the kill, LuAnn finds herself turning to Matt Riggs for help, but he may be just another predator in her life. A Rags-to-riches Deal For Single Mother Luann Tyler Is Deadlier Than She Ever Could Have Imagined In This #1 New York Times Bestselling Thriller From David Baldacci. The Dream She Is Twenty, Beautiful, Dirt-poor, And Hoping For A Better Life For Her Infant Daughter When Luann Tyler Is Offered The Gift Of A Lifetime, A $100 Million Lottery Jackpot. All She Has To Do Is Change Her Identity And Leave The U.s. Forever. The Killer It's An Offer She Dares To Refuse...until Violence Forces Her Hand And Thrusts Her Into A Harrowing Game Of High-stakes, Big-money Subterfuge. It's A Price She Won't Fully Pay...until She Does The Unthinkable And Breaks The Promise That Made Her Rich. The Winner For If Luann Tyler Comes Home, She Will Be Pitted Against The Deadliest Contestant Of All: The Chameleon-like Financial Mastermind Who Changed Her Life. And Who Can Take It Away At Will... She is twenty, beautiful, dirt-poor, and hoping for a better life for her infant daughter when she is offered the gift of a lifetime, a $100 million lottery jackpot. All LuAnn Tyler has to do is change her identity and leave the U.S. forever. It’s an offer she dares to refuse...until violence forces her hand and thrusts her into a harrowing game of high-stakes, big-money subterfuge. It’s a price she won’t fully pay...until she does the unthinkable and breaks the promise that made her rich. For if LuAnn Tyler comes home, she will be pitted against the deadliest contestant of all: the chameleonlike financial mastermind who changed her life. And who can take it away at will... A woman is offered $100 million to serve as a front for a crooked lottery. The offer is from a gangster who fixes lotteries, the scheme requiring the winner to have certain characteristics, preferably good looking and poor. Waitress LuAnn Tyler accepts, and so begins the adventure of a lifetime as things go wrong. By the author of Total Control LuAnn Tyler, a poor unwed mother in rural Georgia, is asked by a stranger to take part in an illegal lottery scheme. LuAnn unwillingly accepts the winning ticket in exchange for a life abroad. But when she tries to return ten years later, she jeopardizes her life. Some violence. 1997 A poor young woman is forced to take part in a crooked lottery scheme after she is framed for murder