She herself has a recurring nightmare that she truly would rather forget, since it was based on something real that occurred when she was a child. When required to draw out her worst nightmare, Jenny leaves the paper given to her blank. In spite of her misgivings, as Tom and the others insist on playing, Jenny acquiesces, though she experiences brief moments of unspoken anger with her boyfriend.
With mounting horror, Jenny notices that the piece for the Shadow Man is a perfect image of Julian. There are also the added dangers of the Creeper (an enormous snake), the Lurker (a large wolf) and the Shadow Man, an entity akin to the Sandman, who brings nightmares rather than dreams and sleep. However, the main obstacle to the players will be nightmares: each player must face their own worst nightmare in order to progress. The objective of the game is to have the paper doll pieces representing each player get to a turret at the top of the miniature structure. All are intrigued by it, as the game appeals to everyone in some way, save Jenny. Audrey observes to Jenny that Tom might be getting too comfortable with her and mildly taking advantage, although Jenny chooses to ignore this observation.Īgainst Jenny's better judgment, at the party she, Tom and their friends open and assemble the game, which resembles a small haunted house. Jenny attempts to talk to him about the game, but Tom carelessly brushes off her concerns, joking that he is getting "Dear Johned" on his birthday. One after another, the other guests arrive: Audrey's boyfriend Michael Cohen, Jenny's cousin Zach Taylor, and another friend, Summer Parker-Pearson. Upon returning home with the game, Jenny is surprised and grateful to discover that her two best friends, Deidre "Dee" Eliade and Audrey Myers, have realized her crisis and come to help with the party. Frightened, she attempts to throw the box at them, but the pair of them are inexplicably terrified of the game and flee, saving Jenny. Once outside, to Jenny's horror, she iss still followed by Slug and P.C., who had evidently waited for her. As she leaves, in response to Jenny's cordial "See you later," Julian ominously states "At nine". Entranced by the box, Jenny buys it and departs. Angered, Jenny launches into a defense of her boyfriend, yet before she finishes Julian allows her to have the game. Pretending to have second thoughts about selling her the game, Julian asks her reasons for purchasing it. Jenny reacts with doubt, yet the box itself is mysteriously tempting. When questioned, Julian begins showing her several ancient games, including a Tibetan one of tigers stalking goats, but Jenny declines unnerved by Julian, she seeks to leave, but the boy entices her with his words and soon presents her a blank "glossy" box, stating that this is what Jenny is seeking. Here she is met by the then-unnamed Julian, whose striking beauty and menacing aura startles yet enchants Jenny. Appropriately, the store is called "More Games".ĭespite serving as a temporary haven, Jenny is disturbed by the interior of the store, noting that even the angle of sunlight coming through a window is wrong, and that many of the games present are both antique and greatly unusual.
Luckily, she is able to locate a partially hidden game store in a mural-decorated wall and hides inside. and Slug, though they are unnamed until the second book). Sure enough, Jenny is soon followed by two unknown young men (P.C. Due to her desire for secrecy so that her friends will not be aware of her problem, she seeks the game in an unsavory part of town.
He'll do anything to win her as she bargains desperately for her body - and soul.".ĭue to several last minute emergencies and a cold-snap preventing a pool party she had originally planned, the seventeen-year-old Jenny Thornton (described as a lovely girl with golden, "honey" colored hair and green eyes) is seeking to purchase a game for her boyfriend, Tom Locke's, birthday. It's Julian's game, and Jenny is the prize he's stalked for years. Suddenly the game is real'! They're in the house of horrors, running from the Shadow Man - Julian himself, who forces them to confront their worst nightmares or be lost in a private hell. Do so at your own risk.' Spellbound, they piece together the cardboard Victorian house and decorate the rooms with their darkest nightmares. When she and her friends open the plain white box at her boyfriend Tom's birthday party, she chills to the warning: 'Entering the Shadow World can be deadly. "He sold her the Game, and Jenny Thornton walked out mesmerized by Julian, the gorgeous cyber-punk with electric blue eyes and frost-white hair.
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