A SPECIAL REPORT: O.C. AUTHORS

TRUE CRIME: It’s billed as “a shocking true story of how love, obsession and power almost killed Barbra Piotrowski.” . . . That would be “Sleeping With the Devil”--Suzanne Finstad’s book about the love affair between Texas millionaire Richard Minns and Piotrowski, a former California beauty queen. After the relationship soured, Piotrowski was shot four times by a paid assassin. It left her paralyzed from the chest down. But Minns was never questioned. . . . Piotrowski, above, who now goes by the name Janni Smith, is president of the Petrofsky Centers for Rehabilitation and Research in Irvine.