Fair Game (A Fair to Remember Series #2) [Paperback]

Carol Cox (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: April 1, 2007

Dinah Mayhew takes on more than just a job at the Chicago World's Fair when she sets her cap for Seth Howell. As Dinah and Seth team up to help Chicago's unfortunates, romance fairly blossoms. But matters take a turn for the worse when Cousin Gladys appears on the scene and starts looking for love in all the wrong places. Upon Gladdie's sudden and mysterious disappearance, Dinah and Seth begin searching for answers, only to find themselves trapped in a maze of secrecy and deception. Will they live to expose the truth or find themselves facing the point of no return?

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About the Author

CAROL COX is a native of Arizona, whose time is devoted to being a pastor's wife, mom to her grown son, and a home-school teacher to her daughter, church pianist, and youth worker. She loves anything that she can do with her family: reading, traveling, hi

Product Details

• Paperback: 320 pages
• Publisher: Barbour Publishing, Inc (April 1, 2007)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1597894915
• ISBN-13: 978-1597894913
• Product Dimensions: 7.9 x 5.1 x 1.1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 8 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (8 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,622,652 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Lovely, romantic read--with a hint of mystery, August 16, 2007

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Kathi Macias (Homeland, CA United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Fair Game (A Fair to Remember Series #2) (Paperback)

Fair Game by Carol Cox is a great follow-up to Ticket to Tomorrow, the first in this excellent series. The author skillfully draws her readers back into the days of the 1893 World's Fair in Chicago, firmly establishing them in the world of Dinah Mayhew and her handsome and charming evangelist friend, Seth Howell, while also plunking them down in the seedy underworld of forced prostitution, kidnapping, and even murder. A great read with a skillful twist!

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Great Historical Romantic suspense, May 20, 2007

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Barbara Warren - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Fair Game (A Fair to Remember Series #2) (Paperback)

Dinah Mayhew never realized life in the big city could be so interesting. She's come to Chicago to work at the World's Columbian Exposition, and she's never seen so many people in her life, all of them in a hurry. She has a nice place to live, an agreeable landlady, and has just met Seth Howell, a very handsoem man. Life is good. But there's a darker side to Chicago. Young women are disappearing off the streets, never to be seen again. When Gladys, Dinah's disagreeable cousin disappears, she feels she owes her aunt and uncle something for raising her. Dinah sets out to solve the mystery. Soon she and Seth are tangled in an underground web of evil. Can they find the missing women without losing their own lives?

Carol Cox makes the Columbia Exposition come alive. Her characters are strong and memorable, and Fair Game is an exciting blend of history, suspense, and romance. every bit as good as her Ticket to Tomorrow.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Carol Cox does it again!, June 4, 2007

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Armchair Interviews (Minneapolis, MN) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Fair Game (A Fair to Remember Series #2) (Paperback)

World's Columbian Exposition held in Chicago, Illinois, attracts the attention of Dinah Mayhew, who lives in Nebraska. Dinah has lived with her Uncle Everett, Aunt Dora, and cousin Gladys ever since her mother has died and her father had left. Through the invitation of her father, who is employed by the fair, Dinah seeks employment, and also so she can be reunited with her father. Dinah stays at Mrs. Purvis' boarding house, and on her first night there, she is invited to attend a tent revival. They both attend the revival and Dinah feels the calling of God to help with the area's young girls. She signs up with Rev. Seth Howell to teach them Bible stories and how to be a Christian, no matter their circumstances.

Rev. Seth Howell is not sure Dinah Mayhew can handle a group of lower-class girls, but through his teachings he finds he was mistaken about her. As the work closely together, not only do they bond through friendship but through love, too. Things go good for Dinah until her cousin Gladys shows up. Gladys becomes a burden to Dinah when she mysteriously disappears and her beau isn't who he says he is. Not only is Gladys missing but also one of Dinah's young girls. As Seth and Dinah solve the mystery of Gladys and Marsha's disappearance, they become closer to discovering the truth about themselves as well as each other.

Dinah also finds out the truth of why her father left her with her uncle and aunt, and why he desperately wanted to reunite with her. Things do not go according to Dinah's plans and she must learn to cope with who her father really is, and that she can go through life as she did before, without him.

Author Cox can weave more webs than a spider can keep up. Each character has his or her own exciting adventure and the reader enjoys the quirks of each one.

Armchair Interviews says: Although this is a sequel to Ticket for Tomorrow, it's a stand-alone book.