The suspense is relentless in #1New York Times bestselling author Lisa Jacksons gripping thriller, set on a college campus and featuring the daughter of New Orleans Detective Rick Bentza resilient young woman whose two-time survival of a serial killer has left her fascinated with the criminal mind, determined to become a true-crime writerand drawn her once more her into a twisted psychopaths unspeakable crimes. Stunningly repackaged, this is the fifth novel in the New Orleans series. Will appeal to all fans of thrillers and suspense fiction, and readers of Sandra Brown and Iris Johansen.

All twenty-seven-year-old Kristi Bentz needs to fulfill her writing dreams is one case that will take her to the top. When she learns that four girls have disappeared from All Saints College in two years, Kristi decides to enroll and re-trace their steps. The once-stodgy Catholic school now boasts edgy professors and provocative classes, and there are whispers of a campus inner-circle whose members engage in dark rituals to which only the elite have access . . .
 
All four girls were lost soulstroubled, vulnerable, with no one to care or come looking for them when they disappeared. The police think theyre runaways, but Kristi senses theres something that links themsomething terrifying.
 
As Kristi delves deeper into her investigation, she gets the feeling shes being watched, followedstudied, even. Then the bodies start turning up in ways that frighten even hardened cops like Bentz and his partner, Reuben Montoya. And Kristi realizes she is playing a game with a killer who has selected her for membership in a cult of death from which there will be no escape . . .
 
Solidifies Jacksons status as the queen of the modern-day suspense thriller.The Providence Journal

Expect the unexpected. The Clarion Ledger
 
Dark and disturbing. The Roanoke Times