After murdering Jim Beverly, a date-rapist quarterback, Arlene Fleet flees to Chicago, promising God to abstain from sex, lies, and the South if he keeps her secret safe. After nine vice-free years, a visitor appears in Arlene's life, asking questions about Jim, and Arlene has to break her promises and travel back to Alabama with her black boyfriend in tow. Joshilyn Jackson writes with sassy intelligence, and provides much-appreciated insight on the peculiar workings of 21st-century Dixie.

In this work of romantic suspense, a photographer plumbs the depths of her haunted past to foil a deranged killer, and falls in love with a New Orleans homicide cop in the process. On the trail of a serial killer who murders his prey in pairs, Detective Reuben Montoya at first suspects Abby Chastain, whose despised ex-husband was one of the most recent victims. But further investigation suggests that not only is Abby innocent, but that she herself is imperiled by the killer, who chooses his targets for their link to the now-defunct insane asylum where Abby’s mother died under suspicious circumstances 20 years ago.

Lisa Jackson follows up her bestselling SHIVER with the sinister ABSOLUTE FEAR. Once again setting her characters in post-Katrina New Orleans, her latest romantic thriller centers on Eve Renner, half sister to SHIVER’s Abby Chastain. There has been a series of brutal murders in the area, and Eve believes she holds the key to the killer. Trouble is, Eve has a bad case of amnesia, and her various flashbacks have her fearful that the killer might in fact be her lover. Jackson provides plenty of creepy twists and turns as well as the sultry sexual tension her fans have come to expect.

In this work of romantic suspense, a photographer plumbs the depths of her haunted past to foil a deranged killer, and falls in love with a New Orleans homicide cop in the process. On the trail of a serial killer who murders his prey in pairs, Detective Reuben Montoya at first suspects Abby Chastain, whose despised ex-husband was one of the most recent victims. But further investigation suggests that not only is Abby innocent, but that she herself is imperiled by the killer, who chooses his targets for their link to the now-defunct insane asylum where Abby’s mother died under suspicious circumstances 20 years ago.

Twice now, Kristi Benz has faced death at the hands of a serial killer and survived, but instead of filling her with fear, her experiences have only whetted her appetite to understand the mind of the psychopath. When wayward troubled girls begin showing up dead at the All Saints College in New Orleans, Kristi joins the campus and begins to play the part of a lost soul herself in hopes of attracting the killer. As the mysterious predator begins to circle closer, Kristi finds herself caught up in the strange subterranean activities of the college, where elite clubs take part in arcane rituals.