Chicago prosecutor, Jess Koster is defending the victim of a brutal rapist.  Then her client suddenly disappears.  Jess is battling her own grief at her mother’s disappearance eight years ago and it seems that someone is now bent of disrupting her ordered existence.  Although the rest of her family seems to have come to grips with her mother’s disappearance, Jess still has nightmares and panic attacks.  Don, her ex-husband has been the only one who had been able to help her, but she had to get out from under his suffocating presence.  Still, they are friends, and when he is now defending the rapist, their paths are crossing more often.  Someone from her past is shadowing her and bringing chaos and terror into her life, each day she feels the menace coming closer and maybe she’ll be the one to disappear this time. 

After reading this book, this reviewer needed to sit back a few days to digest it all.  It’s a roller-coaster ride of emotions that will leave the reader breathless.  The suspense is tight, fear and terror are very present and Joy Fielding takes her reader deep into the depravity and psych of her characters.  The reader will be holding onto her seat, turning the pages furiously to get to the end to see how it all turns out.  Jess is the tortured heroine in this fast-paced story and Ms. Fielding doesn’t let up for a minute.  This reviewer read this story in one sitting; it demanded not to be put down.  And, dear reader, if you are prone to checking out the last few pages, just for peace of mind, don’t!!  You will spoil the marvelous twist that Ms. Fielding has prepared for her readers. 

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