"Dare to take a front row seat to witness the battle between madness and bravery."
Reviewed by Lynn Cunningham
Posted January 12, 2013
Thriller | Fiction Family Life
Doctor Sheila Tao is a professor of psychology at a
university in the state of Washington. She's an expert on
the human mind and what makes it tick. Her classes are very
popular with so many students vying to get into them that
there's a waiting list. She's beautiful and engaged to a
well-to-do man who is also a very good person. Yes, Sheila
has it all. Or does she?
Sheila knew she was playing with fire when she started her
three month affair with her teaching assistant, 23 year old
Ethan Wolfe. But he was so beautiful and she was reeling
from the loss of her father. It should never have happened,
but it did, and Sheila can only try to fix things by ending
the affair, especially now that she's engaged to Morris. She
loves Morris so much and now she must make a clean break
from Ethan.
Little did she know the events that she was setting into
motion when she informed Ethan that their affair was over.
Not only did he not take it well, but he became a bit
vindictive over the whole thing. Sheila had no idea the
lengths that Ethan would go to in order to get even with her.
To add to that, beautiful young women are disappearing from
and around the college campus. Some are turning up dead and
stabbed while others aren't being found at all. It's all
very disturbing and upsetting to everyone, but there don't
seem to be any real leads as to who the killer is.
Ethan becomes more threatening to her by telling her that
he'll release a sex video they made once. This was a video
that Sheila fully believed he had deleted from his phone,
but she couldn't be one hundred percent sure. So she plays
along with him for a little while until she can decide how
to handle things.
There's another very important secret that she's keeping
from Morris as well as everyone else except her own
therapist. It's a potentially life changing one that has
kept her hiding it for years and she knows she has to tell
the man she's going to marry. She just can't bring herself
to risk losing him.
However, keeping secrets turns out to be the least of
Shelia's worries when it becomes clear that her very life is
in danger. Will the Creep surrounding her turn out to be
more deadly than anyone could have imagined?
CREEP is a captivating page turner from the very beginning.
It has everything from nerve jangling suspense to a nail
biting climax. What you should know before ever picking up
CREEP, though, is that it also contains some very gritty
realism that you won't find in other books of this kind. The
plot is honest with no sugar coating the not so pleasant
parts. That just makes it more exciting to read, though.
You'll feel like you're right there in the middle of the
action.
Learn more about Creep
SUMMARY
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.
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