#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Past midnight, Chyna Shepard, twenty-six, gazes out a moonlit window, unable to sleep on her first night in the Napa Valley home of her best friend\'s family. as moment by moment, the terrifying threat of Edgler Foreman Vess intensifies.. . .
Driven by a newly discovered thirst for meaning beyond mere self-preservation, Chyna musters every inner resource she has to save an endangered girl .
At first her sole aim is to get out alive--until, by chance, she learns the identity of Vess\'s next intended victim, a faraway innocent only she can save.
Now she will be tested as never before.
Chyna is a survivor, toughened by a lifelong struggle for safety and self-respect.
Chyna is trapped in his deadly orbit.
A self-proclaimed 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 .
A murderous sociopath, Edgler Foreman Vess, has entered the house, intent on killing everyone inside.
Instinct proves reliable. #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Past midnight, Chyna Shepard, twenty-six, gazes out a moonlit window, unable to sleep on her first night in the Napa Valley home of her best friend\'s family