Eve Renner suffers from memory loss. She can't remember
exactly what happened the night she almost died or all the
facts surrounding her allegation that the man she loves
tried to kill her. Three months have passed; Eve is more
than ready to return to New Orleans and the life she had
before that fateful night. The very day Eve returns to her
hometown, Cole Dennis, her ex-boyfriend, is released from
jail for lack of evidence.
On Eve's first day back and Cole's first day out of jail, a
madman starts a killing spree. Eve has doubts about whether
or not Cole shot her; she can't believe the man she knew
would do such a thing. Nor can she believe, as the police
do, that Cole is behind all the killings. All the victims
are associated with an old, closed down asylum and each
victim is marked with a numeral tattoo. Eve's father ran
Our Lady of Virtues and she grew up playing on the grounds
of the asylum. Somehow, Eve is directly connected to all
the hideous killings. Now the killer wants to add her to
his list.
Lisa Jackson pens stimulating, edge-of-your-seat
suspense. I found this thriller engaging, shocking and
completely gripping. Jackson has a fantastic talent for
pulling the reader into the story with words that heighten
the senses from the graphic scenes to the sharp plot to the
development of relationships. ABSOLUTE FEAR is a fantastic
read.
For the past three months, Eve Renner has struggled to
remember the night she was nearly killed and her lover was
tried for murder. She remembers getting the anxious call
from a friend from her past: “Meet me at the cabin. I’ve
got evidence.” She remembers seeing that friend lying in a
pool of blood. And she remembers a horrifying glimpse of
her lover Cole Dennis’s face as a gunshot plunged her into
darkness. Now, her memory and emotions scarred, Eve has
returned to New Orleans to forget the past. But the past
will not be forgotten. Eve’s shattered memory has helped
Cole walk on murder charges just as a new series of
killings begins.
The latest murders are bizarre and baffling. The victims
are killed in a ritual fashion, a series of numbers
tattooed into their bodies. 212. 101. 111. 323. There is no
clue to their meaning, no connection to the victims except
one: Our Lady of Virtues Hospital, the crumbling old asylum
that was once the scene of unspeakable madness. For Eve, it
was a second home as a child. Her father was a doctor
there, and she spent hours exploring its secret chambers,
hidden rooms, and forbidden passageways. Somewhere in its
decaying rooms lies the key to a terrible crime, a betrayal
beyond imagining whose echoes are now being felt with a
vengeance—a crime that seems to lead to Eve herself. And
the only man she can trust with the search is Cole, her
former lover and, just possibly, a cold-blooded killer.
As forgotten memories begin to surface, bodies are found
and each twist leads to another terrifying piece of the
puzzle. Someone is watching, planning, luring her back to
the ruins of Our Lady and the shocking truths hidden there—
someone who has been waiting for this moment to strike. He
is deadlier than she could ever have imagined and closer
than she knows. For the sins of the past must be revealed,
the crimes brought to justice, and the price paid—in blood.
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