#1 New York Times bestseller Lisa Gardner's riveting suspense debut asks: What would you do if the man of your dreams hides the soul of a killer? 'Lisa Gardner's books come with a built-in set of hands. They reach up out of the pages, grab you by the lapels, and hold you until you've read to the final, suspense-filled sentence.'--Linwood Barclay Jim Beckett was everything she'd ever dreamed of. . . . But two years after Tess married the decorated cop and bore his child, she helped put him behind bars for savagely murdering ten women. Even locked up in a maximum security prison, he vowed he would come after her and make her pay. Now the cunning killer has escaped--and the most dangerous game of all begins. After a lifetime of fear, Tess will do something she's never done before. She's going to learn to protect her daughter and fight back, with the help of a burned-out ex-marine. As the largest manhunt four states have ever seen mobilizes to catch Beckett, the clock winds down to the