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A Thriller of Deadly Attraction
by Jennifer Hillier
Pulsing with the dark obsession of Radiohead's song "Creep," this taut thriller - Jennifer Hillier's superb debut - rockets from its seductive opening to a heartpounding climax not easily forgotten.
If he can't have her...
Dr. Sheila Tao is a professor of psychology. An expert in human behavior. And when she began an affair with sexy, charming graduate student Ethan Wolfe, she knew she was playing with fire. Consumed by lust when they were together, riddled with guilt when they weren't, she knows the three-month fling with her teaching assistant has to end. After all, she's finally engaged to a kind and loving investment banker who adores her, and she's taking control of her life. But when she attempts to end the affair, Ethan Wolfe won't let her walk away.
...no one else can.
Ethan has plans for Sheila, plans that involve posting a sex video that would surely get her fired and destroy her prestigious career. Plans to make her pay for rejecting him. And as she attempts to counter his every threatening move without her colleagues or her fiancé discovering her most intimate secrets, a shattering crime rocks Puget Sound State University: a female student, a star athlete, is found stabbed to death. Someone is raising the stakes of violence, sex, and blackmail... and before she knows it, Sheila is caught in a terrifying cat-and-mouse game with the lover she couldn't resist - who is now the monster who won't let her go.
"While unlikely coincidences abound... and the characters distinctly lack any redeeming spark, the book holds its secrets well and packs a concluding wallop." - Publishers Weekly
"Starred Review. Hillier will likely have best sellers in the future thanks to her suspenseful plotting and solid character development...This fast-paced page-turner will keep fans of Lisa Gardner and Chelsea Cain guessing." - Library Journal
"Psychological thrillers are tough to execute, because their authors must create stories that infiltrate readers' minds, pulling them into the plots as more participants than observers. Hillier pulls off that sleight of narrative hand with remarkable skill." - Booklist
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Originally from Canada, Jennifer Hillier lives with her husband in the Pacific Northwest. Creep is her fictional debut. Visit her on the web at www.jenniferhillier.org.
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