Five years ago Katie Sullivan had been raped, tortured and left for dead in the Florida Everglades, the first and only surviving victim of serial killer Ronny Stark. Since that time she's been the most paranoid person on the planet. She's spent endless hours training with a nine-millimeter Beretta. She sleeps in her clothes, gun in hand, waiting for Stark to try and finish what he'd started, because she knows deep in her soul Stark isn't finished with her.

One night she's asleep under a comfy quilt on a friend's sofa in Long Beach, California, when she hears the sound of lock picks. Two figures dressed in black and holding pistols burst through the door. Katie shoots them through the quilt, both men dying without getting off a shot. She'd been waiting. She'd been ready. She'd just killed two police officers.

And now Katie Sullivan is in trouble deep in this thriller that will have you burning the midnight old, fingers burning through the pages to see what comes next. Katie Sullivan is a brilliant character, Ronny Stark is an evil one and to balance them off there's a dog in the story you can't help but love.