The Prey - Allison Brennan

A stunning new voice in romantic suspense makes her debut with this first book in a back-to-back trilogy in which a former FBI agent turned crime novelist discovers her books are being used as a blueprint for murder. Original. First, she imagined it. Then a killer made it real. Taut, fast-paced suspense . . . a killer debut.--Mariah Stewart Rowan Smith is living in a borrowed Malibu beach house while her bestselling novel is made into a Hollywood movie. A former FBI agent with a haunted past, Rowan thinks she has outrun her demons. But fiction and reality collide when a dismembered body is found in Colorado: the real-life victim had the same name, occupation, and looks as a character in Rowan's novel. By the time the FBI, the LAPD, and her own private bodyguard gather around her, another person is killed-again, the murder ripped from the pages of Rowan's book. In the company of a former Delta Force officer with secrets of his own, Rowan faces an excruciating dilemma: the only way to chase down the tormenting killer is by revisiting the darkness of her past-and by praying for some way out again. After the prey is chosen, the hunt is on and the kill is certain.