However, the main obstacle to the players will be nightmares: each must face their worst personal 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. Audrey also observes to Jenny that Tom might be getting too comfortable with her and mildly taking advantage, although Jenny chooses to ignore this.Īgainst Jenny's better judgment, at the party she, Tom and their friends open and assemble the game, which resembles a small haunted house. Tom is the last to arrive Jenny attempts to talk to him about the game, but Tom carelessly brushes off her concerns. 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 mysteriously terrified of the game and flee, saving Jenny. Once outside, however, Jenny is still followed by Slug and P.C. As she leaves, in response to Jenny's '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, whom she loves, yet even before she finished Julian allows her to have the game.

Julian, having second thoughts about selling her the game, 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 withdraws a blank 'glossy' box, stating that this is what Jenny is seeking. Here, she is met by the then-unnamed Julian, whose striking and strange beauty startles Jenny. However, despite it operating 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. Appropriately, the store is called ' More Games'. 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 being 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. '.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. He'll do anything to win her as she bargains desperately for her body - and soul. It's Julian's game, and Jenny is the prize he's stalked for years. Do so at your own risk.' Spellbound, they piece together the cardboard Victorian house and decorate the rooms with their darkest nightmares. 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. 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.

2.8 Jenny's Nightmare and Julian's Origins.

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