You're just too good to be true
I can't keep my eyes off you
You feel like heaven to touch
I wanna hold you so much

At long last love has arrived
And I thank God I'm alive
You're just too good to be true
Can't take my eyes off you

Pardon the way that I stare
There's nothing else to compare
The sight of you makes me weak
There are no words left to speak

But if you feel like I feel
Please let me know that it's real
You're just too good to be true
Can't take my eyes off you

I love you, baby
And if it's quite all right
I need you, baby
To warm the lonely nights
I love you, baby
Trust in me when I say
Oh, pretty baby
Don't bring me down, I pray
Oh, pretty baby
Now that I found you, stay
And let me love you, baby
Let me love you

You're just too good to be true
I can't keep my eyes off you
You feel like heaven to touch
I wanna hold you so much

At long last love has arrived
And I thank God I'm alive
You're just too good to be true
Can't take my eyes off you

I love you, baby
And if it's quite all right
I need you, baby
To warm the lonely nights
I love you, baby
Trust in me when I say
Oh, pretty baby
Don't bring me down, I pray
Oh, pretty baby
Now that I found this day
Let me love you, baby
Let me love you

Summary

This novel takes place in New York, following a group of exchange students from around the world. The lead characters, Danny and Louise King, a pair of twins, also take part in the exchange program. While sneaking around at a closed amusement park, Danny has a horrific vision of the group of students on a subway that crashes. Spooked, Danny tries to shake the bad dream off, but the next day, he finds the group in the same position as they were in his vision, and realizes that they are on a doomed subway train. The train stops for no apparent reason, as it had in his vision, and as he tries to convince everyone to get off the train, another train is heard speeding up behind them. The group of exchange students, as well as their guide and another old man finally pull open the doors and scramble out into the subway tunnel and begin running to the front of the train. A sudden collision is suddenly heard, as Danny's gory vision plays out in real life. The group of survivors has cheated the Grim Reaper, but soon enough, Danny realizes that Death won't stop until they're all dead, each by terrible accidents. A mysterious nurse, Kate Shelley, also becomes mixed up in the events, leading to a dark and terrible truth.

Deaths

Kate Shelley: During a hazing game in an unfinished hospital wing, Kate is injected with a large dose of Suxamethonium, and as she races down the corridor to see how far she can get, she drops, and slowly succumbs to the icy effects of the drug. As her fellow associates race up behind her with the oxygen tank, they discover that something is wrong with it, and Kate dies. She is soon revived, however, once the oxygen tank is fixed.

Clues/ Notes: Kate was not meant to die, and when she was brought back to life after dying out of turn, she became a servant of Death, letting her see for herself the deaths of others around her while unknowingly setting off events that will lead to others demises.

Taxi Driver: While driving along the road, his cab is hit by a semi, splitting the fuel tank and igniting on impact, causing his taxi to explode.

Clues/ Notes: As Kate was walking on the sidewalk, she watched as the taxi drove by, and was horrified to see the cab driver’s head in flames, seconds before the accident happened.

Later on she takes note of the iPod a hooded person is listening to and it plays "A Grisly Car Crash" by Nevous Norvus.

Subway Train: While on a ride at the Coney Island Amusement Park, Danny King has a vision that he and everyone else in his exchange program die while onboard a train. The train comes to a sudden stop for no apparent reason, and behind them, another engine is heard. A second train smashes into the first one, sending flaming debris everywhere as the door of the car Danny is in detaches and slices Rinoka Aratsu, a Japanese girl, in half before crushing Peter Hoffman’s head into the window. The whole train erupts in an explosion, killing everyone onboard. As the amusement ride comes to a stop, Danny is winded from the premonition, but decides it was just a freaky hallucination. The next day, Mary-Beth Bradbury, the host of the program, decides to take the kids on a tour, and they head into the subway. While onboard, Danny realizes that everyone is set to die, just like in his vision. As the train comes to a sudden unexplained stop, Danny tries to convince everyone onboard the train to get off, telling them that another train is going to crash into it. He manages to get his twin sister Louise, Mary-Beth, Rinoka, Peter, Bodil Raden, James Barker, and an old man named Jack Cohen off the train, escaping through the door. As they all run down the tracks, the second train explodes into the first one, sending flaming debris everywhere, narrowly missing the survivors.

Clues/ Notes: While on the train, Danny notices that someone is listening to "Crazy Train" by Ozzy Osbourne.

Rinoka Aratsu: While lying in her hospital bed due to severe burn injuries, the room above her begins to overflow due to an abandoned bathtub. Rinoka dodges fate twice in her room after nearly being stabbed by a falling scalpel and almost being electrocuted on the floor as her heart-monitor fell into the dripping water. As the water from above her continues to drip onto the floor, she rolls into the only dry spot of the room to avoid the growing puddle. The bathtub from upstairs finally falls through the flooded floor, crushing Rinoka to death under its weight.

Clues/ Notes: Rinoka nearly died three times before she was crushed. As the train was crashing, a flaming piece of debris almost hit her. Later, at the hospital, she falls out of her bed just as numerous sharp instrument falls at her, but she avoids them. As she lies in the pooling water on the floor, her heart monitor begins to topple over, but she rolls out of the water in the nick of time, only to be crushed by the bathtub on the floor above her.

Peter Hoffman: After escaping from a restaurant fire at the zoo, Peter runs to get away from the flames as a fireman, holding a live fire hose, slips on a purse, blasting the water at Peter, lifting him off his feet and throwing him over a fence, into the gazelle display. Peter dies as he lands on a gazelle's horns, impaling him through his chest.

Clues/ Notes: Peter almost dies in the restaurant as it ignites in flames, but he narrowly escapes, only to be blasted by the fire hose and into the gazelle exhibit.

Tony Forelli: While eating his dinner at a restaurant, Tony is shot in the head by a waiter.

Clues/ Notes: Several days before being killed, Tony was at the hospital when Kate Shelley first saw him. When she saw him, she could see a bullet wound in his head.

Jack Cohen: While dancing in the park with Mary-Beth, Jack accidentally slips on a banana peel and falls to the ground. As he stands up, he realizes he has landed on a corkscrew, which is now protruding from his eye. As he yanks it out, part of his brain comes with it, and he dies.

Clues/ Notes: Jack was almost killed before the corkscrew incident. As the group of survivors unexpectedly meets up at the hospital, a heavy rain pours down on them, and Danny manages to get everyone out of the way before an MRI scanner drops from above, almost killing the group.

Brad: After walking in on Danny and Kate having sex, Tony Forelli’s bodyguard Tim steps in and shoots Brad in the chest.

Numerous Policemen and Gangsters: While waiting in the police lobby, Mary-Beth, Bodil, and James witness a shoot-out between several gangsters and policemen.

Mary-Beth Bradbury: While standing with James and Bodil, a nearby scaffold collapses. One of the workers left a chainsaw plugged in and its wire is held into the outlet by a piece of plywood. The chainsaw swings at Mary-Beth, slicing through her neck, before its wire wraps around a light post, causing the saw to swing back and slice through her stomach. As her body begins to collapse, her head falls to the ground as the chainsaw comes around for its final circuit, slicing through the falling head before tearing through her ankles.

Clues/ Notes: Mary-Beth was almost killed before the chainsaw incident. As the group of survivors unexpectedly meets up at the hospital, a heavy rain pours down on them, and Danny manages to get everyone out of the way before an MRI scanner drops from above, almost killing the group.

Tim: After beating Danny in front of Kate to get an answer as to how she knew Tony was going to be shot, Tony finds out that the two of them had nothing to do with it. As he’s about to kill Danny, Louise bursts into the warehouse and sends her motorbike flying into Tim’s chest, toppling him into a meat-hook which impales him through the chest.

Bodil Raden: After a swarm of hornets come from a hole in their hotel's floor, Bodil drops some weed on a pillow and it lights on fire. As she is putting out the fire with an extinguisher, its foam gets all over the floor. James opens the window to let the hornets out just as Bodil slips on the foam and knocks him out the window. She runs outside and climbs a nearby cherry picker to rescue James. While trying to save James from falling, the two of them are swung violently through the window of a department store. As the glass cuts through Bodil, she looks up in time to see several sharp-pointed umbrellas drop from their display, point-first, stabbing and impaling Bodil and James, killing them.

Clues/ Notes: Bodil was almost killed before the umbrella incident. As the group of survivors unexpectedly meets up at the hospital, a heavy rain pours down on them, and Danny manages to get everyone out of the way before an MRI scanner drops from above, almost killing the group.

James Barker: After having his arm torn off by a chain, James and Bodil are swung from the arm of a cherry-picker, smashing through the window of a department store. While lying on the floor, several sharp-pointed umbrellas drop from their display, point-first, stabbing and impaling Bodil and James, killing them.

Clues/ Notes: James was almost killed before the umbrella incident. As the group of survivors unexpectedly met up at the hospital, a heavy rain poured down on them, and Danny managed to get everyone out of the way before an MRI scanner drops from above, almost killing the group.

Louise King and Kate Shelley: After she and her brother decide to die and get brought back to life in order to get taken off Death's List, Kate injects a syringe of Suxamethonium into Louise in attempt to kill her and bring her back to life with an oxygen tank. But as Louise goes into a seizure, Kate realizes that she accidentally injected Louise with Lidocaine, and accidentally kills her, but brings her back to life just in time. A terrible secret is then exposed, and Kate kills herself by jabbing the syringe into her heart and tearing her heart apart.

It turns out that Kate caused the deaths of every survivor. She accidentally gave a patient too much medication which made him falls asleep, allowing the water from the tub he was in to overflow and cause Rinoka's death. It was her purse that the fireman tripped over and accidentally shot Peter into the gazelle exhibit. It was her banana peel that Jack slipped on, and the scaffold that collapsed and caused Mary-Beth's death was loosened by her because she brushed into it everyday on her way to work. While in the hotel room that Bodil and James are in before they die, she uses the sink and a pipe begins to leak, slowly angering the hornets that cause their deaths, and she accidentally injected lidocaine into Louise, almost killing her.

Clues/ Notes: Louise was almost killed before the lidocaine incident. As the group of survivors unexpectedly meets up at the hospital, a heavy rain pours down on them, and Danny manages to get everyone out of the way before an MRI scanner drops from above, almost killing the group.

Louise dies out of order. She was meant to die after Danny, but since she is injected first, she dies first, only to be brought back as an unknowing servant of Death just as Kate was.

Danny King: While racing his sister on his motorbike, Danny's brakes cut out and send him flying down a deadly ravine, killing him.

Clues/ Notes: Danny was almost killed before the ravine incident. As the group of survivors unexpectedly meets up at the hospital, a heavy rain pours down on them, and Danny manages to get everyone out of the way before an MRI scanner drops from above, almost killing the group.

Danny dies out of order. He was meant to die before Louise, but since she was injected first, she died first, only to be brought back as an unknowing servant of Death. Louise is the one who accidentally tampers with Danny’s brakes, sending him hurtling into the ravine

Summary

This novel takes place in Los Angeles, following the lead character, Patti Fuller, who works at a magazine called Borderlands Control. While boarding the South Hill Metroline with her boyfriend, Patti is suddenly caught up in an explosion on board the car she's in. Fire destroys everyone inside her car in an instant, but in an odd twist of fate, Patti realizes that she and her boyfriend, as well as a few others, have yet to board the doomed car of the Metroline. Patti begins to make a scene, blocking these few people from getting on board, and soon enough, it pays off. The stranded few begin to argue with her as the Metroline leaves the station, but seconds later, a horrible explosion is heard as a bomb goes off on the Metroline. Patti knows that what she experienced was more than a lucky dream, and as she slowly figures out that she, like countless in the past, has had a premonition, the few survivors begin to die in gory ways. Patti and her boyfriend Will become desperate to find a way to remove their names from "Death's List" in time, and while researching, Patti learns that her great-grandmother, Juliet Collins, also cheated death once, saving many from a house fire. As Patti slowly figures out how her great-grandmother cheated death for good, time becomes strained as her and Will's name end up at the top of the list.

Victorian England

Deaths

Madame Adrienne’s house: As Juliet Collins takes a seat in the room at her first séance with several other guests at Madame Adrienne’s house, she has a sudden vision of an explosion that happens in a flash, burning everyone to death in the room, including Matthew Upton, Hector Barnes, Mrs Stanley, Andrew Caine, Stewart Tubbs, Bill Sangster, Adrienne and her servants, and herself. In a panic, she causes a scene, which results in all of the guests leaving Adrienne’s house. As they all begin in their separate directions, an explosion erupts from the underground excavation for the new railroad line, sending flames shooting up the walls of Adrienne’s house. In a terrible flash, Adrienne and her servants are all burnt to death.

Matthew Upton: As Matthew is walking along a street, he trips and falls into a pile of debris from the abandoned hospital next to him. A pipe, lined with certain deadly chemicals, ignites from his acids as it jabs through his stomach. Fueled by his fat, the chemicals then proceed to burn him from the inside-out.

Hector Barnes: While opening an Egyptian sarcophagus with Mrs. Stanley and Andrew Caine, a large family of spitting-cobras escapes. One attacks Hector, and he is bit. He dies from the poison.

Mrs. Stanley: While opening an Egyptian sarcophagus with Hector Barnes and Andrew Caine, a large family of spitting-cobras escapes. One manages to coil up and spring at Mrs. Stanley's face, biting her tongue. She dies from the venom as it soaks through her blood.

Andrew Caine: While opening an Egyptian sarcophagus with Hector Barnes and Mrs. Stanley, a large family of spitting-cobras escapes. Several attack Andrew at once, spitting poison in his eyes and slithering around him, biting him in several different places. He dies from the venom of the cobras.

Stewart Tubbs: After escaping from possible danger, Tubbs breaks into the basement of a hospital in search of some clothes to hide his own nudity. In the process, he accidentally topples some jars of unknown gases, which proceed to knock Tubbs unconscious. He is found, but is thought to be dead, and as another doctor begins to perform the autopsy, he slices Tubbs open and pulls back one of the lungs, just as Tubbs wakes up. He soon dies thereafter.

Bill Sangster: While chasing after Juliet, he finally catches up to her on the edge of a large drawbridge that has been drawn open. He tosses Juliet down into the water several feet below to prevent his secret from being let out, but as he stands at the top of the split bridge, he looses his footing as the bridge begins to close. He drops to the very bottom, landing in the gears of the bridge which continues to close, crushing him to death in the gears and mechanics of the bridge.

Juliet Collins: After being thrown from the top of a drawn open bridge, Juliet lands in the water. She struggles to stay alive, but soon enough, she drowns to death. As her body is pulled out of the water, she is brought back to life.

Modern Times

Deaths

South Hill Metroline: While waiting to board the Metroline, Patti Fuller has a flash of a vision that an explosion will kill everyone onboard of the train in a few minutes. In a fit, she manages to prevent several other would-be-passengers from boarding the train, including her boyfriend Will Sax, a man named Al Kinsey, a construction worker named Zack Halloran, a biker named Hal Ward, and a woman named Susan Fries. The Metroline continues on its way without the passengers, and shortly after, a bomb goes off in one of the cars, vaporizing everyone inside while derailing the front two cars and exploding the majority of the train inside the tunnel.

Hal Ward: While biking in a dried up river, Hal tumbles off of his bike as his foot is snagged in a protruding root. A sudden flash-flood rips down the dry river, flooding it instantly. Hal fails to escape the water as his biker helmet weighs him down, and he eventually drowns.

Clues/ Notes: Before he drowns, there is a sudden tremor that leaves a series of cracks beneath him, looking like a skeletal hand has him in its palm.

Hal notices a shadow along the wall of the dried up creek before he starts riding down it.

Zack Halloran: While leaving a building that is under construction, a large pane of glass drops from a scaffold high above Zack, and it hits him edge first, cutting down the middle of his face, neck, chest, and stomach, slicing him in two vertical halves, killing him instantly.

Clues/ Notes: As he looks at his watch, he notices a dark shadow creep by accompanied by an eerie chill.

Susan Fries: While working at a car repair shop, Susan carries a bucket of metal fibres to a shed, but on the way, a few stray metal shards ignite in sparks in a complicated reaction from static from her clothes. Some land on her shirt and burn a hole through her chest, killing her.

Clues/ Notes: As she’s carrying the pail of aluminium shavings, she catches a glimpse of a shadow circling the rim of the pail.

Ironically, her last name is "Fries"; when saying her name it sounds like Susan fries, as in burns.

Al Kinsey: While racing another car, Al falls behind and laughs as the other car hits the train tracks and blows a tire. The hubcap of the car shoots outwards, spiraling in the air before smashing through Al's windshield, slicing off his head.

Clues/ Notes: As he’s racing the other car, he notices a dark shadow slither across the railroad tracks just as the other car slams into them, sending the hubcap ricocheting at his head.

Will Sax: While working at Circuit City, several loaded CD and DVD players begin to malfunction, opening up their lips and shooting their discs at Will, who attempts to dodge the razor-like discs, but eventually fails as they shoot one-by-one into his back, and his neck, killing him.

Clues/ Notes: Before Will is killed, Patti has a dream that the terrorist who was responsible for the bomb talks to her, telling her that he did not kill Hal Ward, Zack Halloran, Susan Fries, Al Kinsey, or Will Sax. Patti is shocked when he says Will's name, as he is still alive.

As all the lights go out in the store, the TV’s all begin to turn themselves on, revealing deathly skulls in the static.

Patti Fuller: Depressed after Will's death, Patti decides she must die and be brought back to life, as she and Will had planned before. She runs into a dog pound and holds the manager there hostage until she injects herself with the toxic chemicals used to kill the dogs, ending her life. She is later brought back to life at a hospital, taken off Death's List.

Clues/ Notes: Had she not injected herself with the chemicals just as she did, she would have been impaled through the head by a television antenna that was launched by an explosion.