Faith Winters experienced a trauma no child should ever have to experience. On the weekend of her thirteenth birthday, at her family’s cabin by the lake, someone killed her father, her sister, her best friend and her best friend’s mother. Only she lived.

The police believe that her father snapped and killed everyone and then killed himself, but Faith saw the man who did it, the man she calls “Rat Face,” only no one believes her.  Some year later she even saw him at a local bar where she hung out.  Terrified that she would lose the chance to clear her father’s name she stole a car and followed him to an abandoned warehouse. When the police who gave chase showed up she told them she had seen killer run inside the warehouse, but they wouldn’t listen to her. Desperate, she grabbed one of the officers’ guns and forced them at gunpoint to check the warehouse but they found nothing. She was very drunk at the time, and her mother begged and pleaded until the police relented and agreed to have her committed instead of arresting her. Now, at twenty two, she is being released from the psychiatric care facility into the custody of her mother.

The terms of her release are that she must attend AA meetings, take her meds, get a job meet with her psychiatrist regularly and show everyone that she is a stable and productive member of society. But Faith has her own ideas. She must find the killer and sometimes that means drinking in order to deal with the painful memories that keep resurfacing and skipping work or AA meetings when they get in the way of her investigation. It also means that she can’t get too close to anyone or they might find out what she is doing. But despite her best efforts there seem to be a few hardy souls who keep turning up to help her; Henryka, the federal investigator, Tommy, her sister’s ex who is now a cop, Amanda, her AA sponsor, Rachel, her best friend’s aunt and Robert, one of the people in her AA group. It is soon clear, however, that things are not right. She begins to get suspicious and paranoid. She sees that man again. Is she losing her mind? Or is he planning to kill her- the last person alive who can identify him as the killer? Even Faith is beginning to wonder what is real and what is fantasy, but time is running out and she must act if she wants to live.

This is a non-stop adrenaline rush! The perfect beach read!

Brenda’s Rating: ****(4 Out of 5 Stars)

Recommend this book to: Sharon and Marian

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