A dead man’s evil lives on …After a nasty mother-teenage daughter argument, AnnaSophia Romanov discovers her defiant daughter in bed with a stranger.Fodder for the sleazeratti. Hell for Alexandra's younger brother and sister. They’re still coping with the aftermath of their psychopathic father’s brutal, unsolved murder.Desperate, AnnaSophia calls the last person she should ask for help. The tabloids claim ex-cop Satish Patel abetted her in her husband's murder. He reluctantly agrees to deal with the deviant in Alexandra’s bed. But then, AnnaSophia makes a disastrous decision ...That decision uncovers a lifetime of lies, deceits, and secrets that threaten to destroy her entire family.

Burying memories sharp enough to raise a welt on the heart can work.Or not.Ask Ryn Davis. The adult daughter of a former high-class prostitute, she knows chronic, long-term insomnia reduces repression as a preferred coping technique. Still, she relies on denial.A phone call from a stranger claiming her mother was murdered twenty years ago turns her life inside out. The reappearance of a forgotten childhood friend exposes buried and forgotten memories. Lies and half-truths torpedo her shaky world.In this fast-paced psychological thriller, the suspense ratchets up. A psychopath's ever-present memories drive him to exact revenge for Ryn's lies about the past. His terrifying game of cat and mouse pit him against her where she is most vulnerable. His ties to organized crime make him even more dangerous.Who is in control? What really happened to her mother? Why can't Ryn remember?Is facing her past the path to survival or death?

An eye for an eye.A child for a child.Three children for an only son.Watch AnnaSophia come undone.Not all monsters win when they come out from under the bed. AnnaSophia Romanov survives fifteen lonely years of psychological abuse married to a psychopath. Handsome. Uber-wealthy. Powerful. Charismatic. A psychopath.After his brutal murder—still unsolved three years later—AnnaSophia thinks she’s helped their three children heal. Until … her oldest daughter uncovers her father’s most heinous atrocity.Suddenly, AnnaSophia’s carefully re-envisioned life falls apart. She pulls a trigger in defense of her family. The police close the case as an accident. But …Past and present collide when the serial killer who has a long, complicated history with her husband demands payback—her children’s lives for his son’s murder.Two combative men wait on her doorstep to help, but both have their own questionable agendas. The prospect of killing the two delights the killer—almost as much as piling more guilt on AnnaSophia’s plate.