Sizzling...Original...Hypnotic...A page-turner. --ORLANDO SENTINEL
Thoroughly chilling and engrossing...a breathtaking psychological
thriller. --LIBRARY JOURNAL
Back at college in the '70s, they called themselves The Madison Seven--a
close circle of friends inseparably linked by trust, loyalty, and love.
Then one night, years later, they gathered at Julia Mallet's Manhattan
apartment for a Come-As-You-Were Party and decided to play a game...
Tough, beautiful and independent, Julia Mallet feels her life is nearly
perfect. She holds a high-profile executive position in an important
advertising firm. She is raising a beautiful little daughter, Emily,
without the inconvenience of a husband. And now The Madison Seven have
come together once again to celebrate her thirty-fifth birthday...and to
bring back a past that should have been left dead and forgotten.
Less than twenty-four hours later, a woman Julia barely knows is
brutally and senselessly slain by a faceless psychopath. NYPD Detective
Ray Burgess is a man pursued by shadows, a good cop who has stared too
deeply into the face of evil, and his obsessive dedication is drawing
him closer to Julia, even as a crazed killer strikes again and again.
The maniac has left a calling card behind that only Julia Mallet can
read: the result of a post-hypnotic suggestion inadvertently lodged in
six subconscious minds--the dark residue of a harmless party game gone
terribly wrong. Now Julia knows without question that one of her six
dearest friends is a murderer...and is coming after her next.
