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.