A short, riveting thriller that resets you in the Brown and de Luca Universe just in time for book 7, GIRL BLUE. "Shayne has hit the jackpot with the pairing of self-help author Rachel de Luca and Detective Mason Brown.

. .

. she is a master storyteller.

" -RT Book Reviews on Innocent Prey, a Brown and de Luca NovelHey, I'm Rachel and just so you know up front, I've got a mouth on me. Not in public-when I can help it.

Cussing is bad for the image of a bona fide guru of self-help, or that which I call "the bullsh*t I write. "Only, I'm not so sure it's bullsh*t, because in trying it out, I got my eyesight back after 20 years.

Yeah, the corneal tissue came from a serial killer, and yeah, I started seeing his crimes. But still, eyesight.

I also have the hottest detective in the universe attached to my proverbial-and, okay, wider than I'd like-hip. I got his 2 nephews with the package and I couldn't fu-freaking love Jeremy and Josh more if I was their mother, which I'm way too young to be.

That's a lie, Rache. They're twelve and eighteen.

You're thirty-Don't interrupt, Inner B*tch, I'm on a roll. I also have my amazing bulldog, Myrtle.

I understand her. She's blind like I used to be.

And I got a little something extra with my cornea transplant. "It's a blessing and a curse," said the greatest TV detective ever.

Only my something extra was. .

. let's say down.

And one of Josh's sixth-going-into-seventh-grade pals has been kidnapped. The sick prick snatched him off his bicycle and left a note behind.

"Wait for instructions. " Only none ever came.

What a time for my antennae to be out of whack!So my wires are down, there's a kid missing, I'm bathing in my pity pool, and things get even worse. A big celebrity psychic shows up to help the cops find the missing kid.

In my town. Yeah.

No. So there's all that.

But I'm out of room, so. .

. just get the book, and I'll tell you the rest.

#"This is page-turning, non-stop suspense at its finest. "-RT Bookclub on Deadly Obsession, A Brown and de Luca Novel.