Book excerpt: The wet sheet slipped slowly from her face and she began to count. There were eleven, in all. She was last in line, but he was getting closer. He'd be to her soon... As though stumbling out of a nightmare, rookie cop Alex Kincaid awakens in her car, dazed and confused. Parked on an unfamiliar street, she's outside an unfamiliar home with no recollection of how she got there, and no memory of the night before. Then her nightmare becomes reality. Alex's first call of the day takes her to the same street, to the same house, where a man has been brutally killed. Alex thinks the man is a perfect stranger-until she finds herself the main suspect in his murder. And now, as she races to clear her name, she's haunted by memories of a horrific thirty-year-old crime-a crime that links her to the dead man...and marks her as the killer's next target. REVIEWS: "Gripping...Scary...kept me reading until the end." New York Times bestselling author Phillip Margolin "Hits you like a shock of ice-cold water and chills you to the bone." New York Times bestselling author Michael Prescott ..".a horrifying journey through a cunning, diabolical mind. The level of suspense is] almost unbearable...Not for the faint of heart." Piedmont Post OTHER NOVELS by Danielle Girard: Savage Art Ruthless Game Cold Silence Dead Center (The Rookie Club Series, Book 1) One Clean Shot (The Rookie Club Series, Book 2) Dark Passage (The Rookie Club Series, Book 3) Interference (The Rookie Club Series, Book 4) ABOUT DANIELLE GIRARD: As one of four children, Danielle Girard grew up in a house where the person with the best story got heard, and it's probably no surprise that fast-paced suspense stories have always been her favorite. Girard's books have won the Barry Award and been selected for the RT Reviewers Choice Award. Two of her novels have been optioned for movies. Visit her website at www.daniellegirard.com.