The suspense is relentless in #1 New York Times bestselling author
Lisa Jackson's gripping thriller featuring the daughter of New Orleans
Detective Rick Bentz--a resilient young woman whose two-time survival of
a serial killer has left her fascinated by the criminal mind, determined
to become a true-crime writer--and drawn her once more into a twisted
psychopath's unspeakable crimes . . .
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 souls"--troubled, vulnerable, with no one to
care or come looking for them when they disappeared. The police think
they're runaways, but Kristi senses there's something that links
them--something terrifying.
As Kristi delves deeper into her investigation, she gets the feeling
she's being watched, followed--studied, 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 . . .
