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Recent midnight, Chyna Shepard, twenty-six, gazes away a moonlit windowpane, unable to sleep on her first evening in the Napa Valley home of her best friend’s family. Instinct demonstrates reliable. A murderous sociopath, Edgler Foreman Vess, has entered the home, intent on killing everyone inside. A self-proclaimed “homicidal adventurer,” Vess lives and then satisfy all appetites as they arise, to immerse himself in sensation, to live without fear, remorse, or limitations, to live with strength. Chyna is captured in his fatal orbit. Chyna is normally a survivor, toughened with a lifelong struggle for safety and self-respect. Now she will end up being tested as never before.

Initially her sole goal is to obtain away alive-until, by opportunity, she learns the identification of Vess’s following intended victim, a faraway innocent only she can save. Driven with a newly uncovered thirst for signifying beyond mere self-preservation, Chyna musters every internal resource she’s to save lots of an endangered lady . as minute by minute, the terrifying threat of Edgler Foreman Vess intensifies.