Early ReviewersK.L. Griffiths

English teacher Lyn Darrow is dead inside. The driver responsible for the hit and run that took her husband's life three years ago has not been found.

Lyn may reside in a home on an isolated nature preserve, but she lives inside her books. Books are safe—until the exact scene of her husband's gruesome death appears in the one she's reading.

Someone wants her terrified, and as the violent acts escalate, Lyn understands that someone wants her dead. No more numbing out with books. Vigilance is the order of the day. Courage. Strategy. A timid widow must rewrite herself if she is to outmaneuver a killer.Dark.

Twisted. Shocking. Redemptive.

Beer chemist Rory Harper loves his job and has the beer belly to prove it. He also has a problem. Named Arthur.

With an endless barrage of fat jokes and obnoxious pranks, Arthur turns Telluric Lake Brew Works into Rory's personal hell. Revenge fantasies are all Rory has to soothe his battered ego, and eventually he decides to carry out the "perfect," anonymous payback during a company party. But something goes wrong. Arthur, who should be home afflicted with explosive diarrhea, shows up the next day unscathed, and Rory's seventy-year-old boss is dead in the taproom. The coroner rules it a heart attack, but Rory's not convinced.

Some careful digging confirms Arthur switched the beers. But is the spiked beer what caused the boss's heart attack? Did Arthur know it was spiked? To uncover what happened the night the boss died, Rory and Arthur play a clandestine game of cat and mouse. The more information that comes to light, it becomes clear the only solution to Rory's bully problem is another anonymous payback, and this time, he'll get it right. This time it won't be an accident when someone dies.