January 2008

Dear Readers,

Now, for those of you who missed Monty and his son Lane in hardcover, you'll be glad to know that on 2/26/08, the paperback edition of DARK ROOM will be released.  In DARK ROOM, Monty's back and he's taking names. But he's never forgotten the promise he made to a little girl all those years ago.  To tide everyone over till then, here’s a brief summary:

The nightmare is back...

DARK ROOM opens in the tormented dreams of Morgan Winter. Haunted by the past, Morgan has never been the same since that dark Christmas Eve when, as a child, she discovered the bodies of her brutally murdered parents. Now 17 years later, the nightmare resurfaces when she learns that the wrong man was convicted. The real killer is still at large and has been for all this time— silently watching her from the shadows, making sure a dark secret is never revealed.

But now, Morgan’s determination to uncover the truth and escape from the darkness which envelopes her heart compels her to hire the one man she trusts to get at that truth— Monty Montgomery — who was the lead detective on the double-homicide that claimed her parents’ lives. His ensuing investigation threatens to expose the real killer and the dark secret that has been silenced all these years— endangering not only Morgan’s state of mind but her very life.

To read an excerpt of DARK ROOM, click here.

TWISTED, my brand new hardcover thriller set to be released on 3/25/08, took me in an entirely new direction. Set inside the FBI and the life of one of its hostage negotiators, TWISTED strikes at the heart of our deepest fears, where the hunter becomes the hunted and the stakes become one’s life.
 
Women are mysteriously disappearing, never to be seen again.   When her best friend from childhood is one of the victims, former FBI special agent Sloane Burbank is brought in by the desperate family.   But her involvement is unwanted, particularly by the agent in charge of the case–her ex-lover Derek Parker.
 
Derek has no time and little interest in offering Sloane his cooperation.   He’s been reassigned to C-6, the FBI’s Asian Organized Crime squad.   With prostitutes being murdered and Chinatown on the verge of erupting into gang warfare, a year-old missing person’s case seems low priority.   And the unresolved feelings between him and Sloane are a complication that neither of them needs.
 
Before either of them can act on these feelings, it becomes frighteningly clear that they are dealing with a more heinous crime spree than they ever imagined—and Sloane is the unsub’s ultimate target.

To read an excerpt of TWISTED, click here.

I hope these summaries have made you as eager and impatient as I am for the releases of DARK ROOM and TWISTED. Fortunately, we don’t have long to wait — February and March are right around the corner!

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Thanks for your continued enthusiasm and support. I hope you savor every page of DARK ROOM and TWISTED.

Happy Reading!

Andrea