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word, Alex had taken her hand and pulled her into the shadowy gap between McGill’s and the Pearl S. Buck Community Book Exchange. That brief, secret meeting was the first of many between them, and they had managed to keep their innocent contact under wraps until the Thanksgiving Day football game between Dorothy and its archrival, Marsh Spring High.
    Everything changed that day because that was the day they gave each other everything that mattered.
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    Faith stuck her foot out to stop the turning of her chair. She’d seen Zander Baron’s first movie, Burn , while on a blind date with some guy Daiyu had set her up with, and the poor fellow had suffered the misfortune of being in her company the night she rediscovered the boy she had loved and lost in high school.
    Alexander Brannon, the bad boy of Raleigh County, was alive and thriving in Hollywood as Zander Baron, movie star.
    It had taken a few days and every skill she possessed as a reporter, but she now had no real doubt that Alex and Zander were the same person. The absence of any verifiable personal information about Zander Baron only confirmed her suspicion.
    A part of her had never gotten over the loss of Alex, and that part had roared to life with a vengeance after she’d seen Burn . The movie’s poster featured cars and weaponry rather than the characters in the film, and the studio had released no advance stills to the press. Since Alex was an unknown, the movie had been given a “soft” opening, showing in only a few theaters in New York and Los Angeles prior to its nationwide release on New Year’s Day.
    He’d shaved his head for his role, but the absence of his dark, silky hair had only drawn more attention to his eyes. His eyes were the feature she’d studied most, had learned best. In that darkened theater, she realized that her fondest wish had come true: Alex was still alive.
    Maybe she had known it all along. Perhaps that was why she had never fallen in love or experienced a serious relationship. For ten years, she’d believed her heart had been lost along with Alexander Brannon.
    Now she knew better. Zander Baron had had it all along.
    Two teams of her co-workers were chasing the inflatable beach ball from cubicle to cubicle, and as the playful chaos around her intensified, Faith focused more sharply on the materials covering her desk.
    The box-office success of Zander’s first film had been phenomenal; Burn ’s box-office receipts had set a record for a New Year’s Day opening. The film continued to hold the number-one spot two months later. Zander had two new movies set for release— Reunion in the next month and Miss Wright , which was slated for June. Burn ’s success had convinced studios that Zander Baron was the answer to James Dean, someone whose star had begun to burn well before most of his work had even caught the public’s notice.
    Zander was poised on the verge of superstardom, and the entertainment media hungered to turn him into their latest hot commodity. In just the past eight weeks, he had been on the covers of People , Rolling Stone , Entertainment Weekly , the National Enquirer , the Star and OK!
    Photos were pretty much all the magazines had to offer. Team Baxter had done a very good job of doling out small doses of information to widespread sources. Faith admired Olivia Baxter’s cunning. Zander had been interviewed by regional newspapers and magazines well before the release of Burn . Major media had picked up those stories and regurgitated the information, lending it credibility.
    Faith knew it was all false.
    She was sitting on a scoop that could send her career into orbit. If she told the world the truth about Zander Baron, she could write her own ticket. She had no desire to be the next great gossip maven, but a scoop was a scoop, whether it uncovered an actor or a political scandal. Writing a story that no one else had would give Faith the leverage and reputation she needed to get a job with a serious news