NEVER DROP YOUR GUARD. NEVER CLOSE YOUR EYES. OR YOU'LL NEVER SEE HIM COMING... It should be the best day of their lives. Too bad they never get to see it. On the cusp of their twenty-first birthday, he strikes. His victims are always twins, their ritualistic murders planned in exquisite detail, down to the moment when they breathe their last together. An innocent man is in prison and Brianna Hayward needs to convince the New Orleans police. Not just to free her cousin, but to save others who will suffer until the true culprit is found. Reporter Jason Bridges is intrigued. It's a story that could make his career - as long as Brianna never guesses the secret in Jason's past... Detective Rick Bentz had his doubts about the '21' conviction when he worked the case in L.A. Now the real murderer may be loose in his backyard. Twin sisters have vanished, days before their birthday. And as Bentz and his partner Reuben Montoya desperately follow the trail, a killer prepares to unite his next victims in death forever...

Author Biography

LISA JACKSON is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of more than seventy-five novels, including Close to Home, Deserves to Die, You Don't Want to Know and Hot Blooded, the first in the New Orleans series. She has over twenty million copies of her books in print in nineteen languages. She lives with her family and a rambunctious pug in the Pacific Northwest. Find out more at www.lisajackson.com www.facebook.com/lisajacksonfans www.twitter.com/readlisajackson