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From the New York Times bestselling author of FATAL BURN and SHIVER comes a
pulse-pounding new novel of madness, deceit, and twisted revenge that will take
readers into the heart of fear…
For the past three months, Eve Renner has struggled to remember the night she
was nearly killed and her lover was tried for murder. She remembers getting
the anxious call from a friend from her past: “Meet me at the cabin. I’ve
got evidence.” She remembers seeing that friend lying in a pool of blood.
And she remembers a horrifying glimpse of her lover Cole Dennis’s face
as a gunshot plunged her into darkness. Now, her memory and emotions scarred,
Eve has returned to New Orleans to forget the past. But the past will not be
forgotten. Eve’s shattered memory has helped Cole walk on murder charges
just as a new series of killings begins.
The latest murders are bizarre and baffling. The victims are killed in a ritual
fashion, a series of numbers tattooed into their bodies. 212. 101. 111. 323.
There is no clue to their meaning, no connection to the victims except one:
Our Lady of Virtues Hospital, the crumbling old asylum that was once the scene
of unspeakable madness. For Eve, it was a second home as a child. Her father
was a doctor there, and she spent hours exploring its secret chambers, hidden
rooms, and forbidden passageways. Somewhere in its decaying rooms lies the key
to a terrible crime, a betrayal beyond imagining whose echoes are now being
felt with a vengeance --- a crime that seems to lead to Eve herself. And the
only man she can trust with the search is Cole, her former lover and, just possibly,
a cold-blooded killer.
As forgotten memories begin to surface, bodies are found and each twist leads
to another terrifying piece of the puzzle. Someone is watching, planning, luring
her back to the ruins of Our Lady and the shocking truths hidden there --- someone
who has been waiting for this moment to strike. He is deadlier than she could
ever have imagined and closer than she knows. For the sins of the past must
be revealed, the crimes brought to justice, and the price paid --- in blood.
Author bio:
Lisa Jackson is the number-one New York Times bestselling author of more than
seventy-five novels, including Shiver, Fatal Burn, Deep Freeze, and The Morning
After. She has over eight million copies of her books in print. She lives with
her family and an eighty pound dog in the Pacific Northwest. Readers can visit
her website at www.LisaJackson.com.
ABSOLUTE FEAR © Copyright 2008 by Lisa Jackson. Reprinted with permission by Kensington. All rights reserved.
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