At nine o'clock on a mild October night two men are shot in the lobby of Manhattan's luxury Park Tower. Minutes later, a police chief listens to a voice on the telephone from the penthouse.

"I've jammed the elevators and stacked 40 pounds of nitro against the stairway door. Break it open and you'll blow this building right across Central Park."

Tina St. Clair, beautiful and rich, hears the same words...but she is only inches away from the speaker, trapped in her apartment by this crazy who wants to love her. She has never had to fight for anything in her life...but she had better fight now!

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