Lock the doors, draw the curtains, pull up the covers and be prepared for "Thriller: Stories to Keep You Up All Night".

Featuring the biggest names in fiction, "Thriller" is the first collection of pure thriller stories ever published. Offering heart-pumping tales of suspense in all its guises are thirty of the most critically acclaimed and award-winning names in the business.

Sandra Brown is the author of fifty-seven New York Times bestsellers, including SMOKE SCREEN (Simon & Schuster 2008). Brown began her writing career in 1981 and since then has published over seventy novels, most of which remain in print. As of 1990, when Mirror Image made The New York Times bestseller list, each subsequent novel, including reprints of earlier books, have become Times bestsellers. Sandra and her husband Michael Brown live in Arlington, Tx.