Satu demi satu gadis-gadis di Raleigh, Carolina Utara, menghilang dari tempat tidur mereka di malam hari. Tidak ada tanda-tanda penculikan atau masuk dengan paksa. Semua gadis itu adalah pemandu sorak yang populer, cantik, berambut gelap panjang, dan bermata biru. Semuanya ditemukan dalam keadaan tak bernyawa, diperkosa, kepala digunduli dan ditato, serta banyak luka tusukan di tubuh mereka yang membentuk pola tertentu.
Sementara itu, Jenna Marshall, guru Kimia SMA Raleigh, mengalami teror berupa surat ancaman dan aksi vandalisme karena tidak meluluskan salah seorang anggota tim sepak bola sekolah di kelasnya, Rudy Lutz. Penyelidikan yang dilakukan oleh Agen Khusus Steven Thatcher membawanya kembali ke kasus tiga tahun lalu yang melibatkan seorang remaja bernama William Parker, yang sekarang dikenal dengan nama Rudy Lutz.
Steven dan Jenna kemudian sadar bahwa mereka mempunyai musuh dan masalah dengan masa lalu yang sama. Benih-benih cinta pun mulai tumbuh di antara keduanya. Mereka berusaha memupuk keberanian untuk menghadapi diri mereka sendiri, serta menemukan pembunuh berantai yang ternyata juga mengincar Jenna, wanita pujaan sang pembunuh yang sesungguhnya...
RITA-award winning, USA Today best-selling author Karen Rose earned her degree in Chemical Engineering from the University of Maryland. For a number of years she worked in the engineering field, earning two patents, but began writing romance suspense novels when scenes began filling her mind and her characters would not be silenced.
Her debut suspense novel, DON'T TELL, was released in July, 2003. Since then, she has released eight more novels and a novella. To date, her books have been translated into five languages. Her third novel, I'M WATCHING YOU, received the Romance Writer's of America's coveted RITA award for Best Romantic Suspense for 2005. In that same year her second novel, HAVE YOU SEEN HER? was also a 2005 RITA finalist.
Her fourth novel, NOTHING TO FEAR, was a 2006 RITA finalist, was nominated for Romantic Times Magazine's Best Suspense and for the SIBA Book Award for Fiction.
Karen's ninth novel, DIE FOR ME, was a RITA finalist for Best Romantic Suspense and won the Romantic Times' Reviewers' Choice Award for Best Romantic Suspense of 2007.
A former high school teacher of chemistry and physics, Karen lives in Florida with her husband of twenty years and ...