Lima wanita ditemukan tewas mengerikan dengan tubuh terbelah. Mereka diikat di atas altar, ditelanjangi, dan dipersembahkan sebagai korban. Dalam melakukan aksinya, si pembunuh selalu mengorbankan lima orang wanita, untuk kemudian pergi menghilang dan melakukan ritual di tempat lain. Sejauh ini, korbannya sudah dua puluh empat orang, dan korban kelima selalu ditemukan dalam keadaan tanpa jantung.
Dallas Sloan, seorang agen FBI, bertekat untuk menemukan pembunuh sadis ini karena keponakannya telah menjadi korban. Penyelidikannya membawa Dallas ke Cherokee County, di mana ia bertemu dengan seorang cenayang cantik, Genny Madoc. Genny ternyata sudah mengetahui bahwa Dallas ditakdirkan untuknya.
Dallas yang seumur hidupnya tidak pernah percaya pada hal-hal gaib, kini tak kuasa menyangkal kalau keajaiban itu ada. Dengan kehadiran Genny, Dallas seolah tak berdaya di hadapan percik-percik cinta mereka. Dallas pun berusaha mati-matian untuk membekuk si pembunuh, yang ternyata mengincar Genny wanita yang menjadi jodohnya sebagai korban selanjutnya...
I'm a sixth generation Alabamian who writes mainstream romantic suspense for Kensington. I'm also a wife, mother and grandmother. People who know me well will tell you that my family is more important to me than anything in the world. I'm fortunate to have a cousin who is like a sister to me and am blessed with a handful of close friends, whom I refer to as my bosom buddies. I wouldn't know what to do without these great gals who give me encouragement, support, advice, love and lots of laughs.
I was born in Alabama, where my parents lived on my paternal grandmother's ancestral home place, a farm that is still owned by a member of the family. My upbringing was divided between Tuscumbia & Barton, Alabama and Chattanooga, Tennessee. I graduated high school from Chattanooga Central and then attended college at the University of North Alabama. I married young and traveled briefly with my husband, who served in the navy in the mid-to-late sixties. After my husband decided against a military career, we settled back in our home state of Alabama and started a family. First a daughter and then a son. I was "in my ...