Darkness lies closer than you think.... Newly divorced, estranged from grown sons who do not answer her calls, Liana Clymer leaves everything for a fuchsia cottage in the Florida swamps. With only a dog for companion, she heads to meet the only neighbors in sight - the blue house across the street. But minutes after teen Justin answers the door and wins her over with his shy kindness, his face appears on TV, a child kidnapped two years ago. Worse, Justin’s abductor has no intention of letting Liana go. Liana will fight tooth and nail to survive and save Justin. But can she thwart a wily, depraved psychopath for whom abuse is a way of life...and killing is routine?
Author
BIO—NANCY SPRINGER Nancy Springer has passed the fifty-book milestone, having written that many novels for adults, young adults and children, in genres including mythic fantasy, contemporary fiction, magical realism, horror, and mystery—although she did not realize she wrote mystery until she won the Edgar Allan Poe Award from the Mystery Writers of America two years in succession. DARK LIE, recently released from NAL, is her first venture into mass-market psychological suspense. Born in Montclair, New Jersey, Nancy Springer moved with her family to Gettysburg, of Civil War fame, when she was thirteen. She spent the next forty-six years in Pennsylvania, raising two children (Jonathan, now 38, and Nora, 34), writing, horseback riding, fishing, and birdwatching. In 2007 she surprised her friends and herself by moving with her second husband to an isolated area of the Florida panhandle, where the birdwatching is spectacular and where, when fishing, she occasionally catches an alligator.
