This book takes place in a hospital in California. A young single woman has become ill. She stays in the hospital for a long period of time to find out nothing is wrong. Her hobby is signing up for free trips,winning anything she can. She wins a free trip to Hawaii to find her self chaporoned by a nasty woman. The woman takes her to a home after telling her the hotel was booked up. She finds out she is the heart donar for a young man who was in the hospital at the same time she was. I won't tell the ending, so not to spoil how it ends. Way cool ending. This book was so good. I could not put it down. It was a mystery, romance, historic, everything you want to read in a book. No bad language. I would read it again.

The book - "The Psychic Realm:What Can You Believe", chapter - "Proofs of Survival After Death", p. 229 & 230, I am the father of the little boy in the yellow Dr. Denton pajamas that Melissa Siebert saw. 10 days after he died, he appeared to me along with my father who had been dead for 14 yrs. at the time. That was the only time I've ever seen spirits, and a series of paranormal events occurred a couple of times per week for the following 9 months which were witnessed simultaneously by my wife. After she gave birth to our new son, nothing of a paranormal nature ever occurred. I wrote up an account of this. My e-mail address: bobr@inetworld.net

I first read this book when I was 13 years old, and I actually jumped out of my chair when someone tapped me on the shoulder during a particularly suspenseful part! It was my first suspense novel, and definitely made me a fan of the genre. I agree that the TV movie (with Richard Thomas as the evil brother!) was not as enthralling as the book, but was a pretty good adaptation of the story nonetheless. If you can find this book, it's certainly worth the read.

I read this book several years ago and made the mistake of loaning it out -- never got it back. I would recommend it to anyone who enjoys suspense stories. I was thrilled when a TV movie version of this book came out. Thrilled but then disappointed. Read the book -- much better!