Robin McKenna has realized her dreams of owning her own nightclub and the opening of her first art showing. Seven years before, she stripped at a club to pay her way through college. Seven years ago, four of her friends were brutally mutilated and killed. The killer, Theodore Glenn, threatened revenge on everyone who helped to convict him.

Robin has spent the last seven years sleeping with the lights on. She's become proficient with a gun and hasn't had one night's peace in all the time that Glenn has been incarcerated. He's written her from prison with a promise that he will kill her. Now, the unthinkable has happened -- Glenn has escaped.

San Diego Detective William Hooper put Glenn behind bars. William has also been in love with Robin all this time. The fateful night her roommate was murdered, William asked Robin if she'd been intimate with Glenn because all the women he killed, also strippers, had had a relationship with him. Robin walked out of William's life that night. And he's regretted his words for the last seven years.

Glenn laid out an intricate escape plan and a rich lifestyle south of the border, after he kills Robin and William. An intelligent, cold sociopath, Glenn starts a new killing spree as he cuts his way closer to Robin. With each death, her fear escalates and that's just how he wants her -- afraid. His obsession with her competes with his desire for revenge. Robin should fall apart when she comes face to face with Glenn, but she's not as distraught as he would believe. She has an inner strength that drew Glenn and William to her in the first place.

Allison Brennan sets a fast, heart-pumping pace from Glenn's escape to the culmination of KILLING FEAR. Brennan's story promises to shock you. The relationship between Robin and William builds at a complimentary tempo with the intense suspense. A well-written book.