NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Past midnight Chyna Shepard twentysix gazes out a moonlit window unable to sleep on her first night in the Napa Valley home of her best friends family. Instinct proves reliable. A murderous sociopath Edgler Foreman Vess has entered the house intent on killing everyone inside. A selfproclaimed homicidal adventurer Vess lives only to satisfy all appetites as they arise to immerse himself in sensation to live without fear remorse or limits to live with intensity. Chyna is trapped in his deadly orbit. Chyna is a survivor toughened by a lifelong struggle for safety and selfrespect. Now she will be tested as never before. At first her sole aim is to get out aliveuntil by chance she learns the identity of Vesss next intended victim a faraway innocent only she can save. Driven by a newly discovered thirst for meaning beyond mere selfpreservation Chyna musters every inner resource she has to save an endangered girl . . . as moment by moment the terrifying threat of Edgler Foreman Vess intensifies. show more