Samantha Leiffer has already had enough peril and excitement for a lifetime. Hunted by a vicious killer (in Hide Your Eyes), she emerges in this book with a sexy cop boyfriend, a new apartment and a good chance at happiness. But then 9/11 happens, and something's going on with her boyfriend that she doesn't want to look too closely at. Then there's the guy who's stalking her, leaving her carefully folded messages telling her that someone is watching her.

Gaylin has a light, breezy style that would enhance any chick lit novel, but here she uses it to heighten the rising sense of menace. Her protagonist is a basically happy prekindergarten teacher, who does her best to cling to her sense of optimism despite the very bad things going on around her. This book felt to me like what Elizabeth Peters would be writing, were she a young, contemporary author just starting her career. ( )

Gripping. Throughout the whole novel the tension and suspense rises. Could he be committing these atrocious deeds? No, it couldn't be him, could it? You almost fall into Sam's paranoid world and start looking at your world a little differently. ( )