Five Days in Summer

SHE WAS SUPPOSED TO BE RIGHT BACK...Before the long drive home from vacation on Cape Cod, Emily Parker made a quick run to the grocery store...and disappeared.When her car is found abandoned in the parking lot, her husband, Will, turns to a retired FBI profiler named John Geary for help.As her family scours the Cape for her, Emily's thoughts are not on her own safety. Kept helpless in a madman's lair, she watches him prepare a five-day countdown that will bring him to his real victim-her young son.

"I put Five Days in Summer aside only once...to make sure my doors were locked." --Barbara Parker

"A gripping, poignant portrait of an innocent family caught in a nightmare of evil." -Anne Frazier

"Five Days has it all-an attractive female detective, a crusty FBI profiler, and the scariest killer you'll never want to meet." --Leslie Glass

"Strikes terror into a lazy summer day." --Donna Anders

"Taut, clean storytelling." -Publishers Weekly