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Every time Gwen closed her eyes, she saw him in her nightmares. Now her eyes are open, and he’s not going away.
Gwen Proctor won the battle to save her kids from her ex-husband, serial killer Melvin Royal, and his league of psychotic accomplices. But the war isn’t over. Not since Melvin broke out of prison. Not since she received a chilling text…
You’re not safe anywhere now.
Her refuge at Stillhouse Lake has become a trap. Gwen leaves her children in the protective custody of a fortified, well-armed neighbor. Now, with the help of Sam Cade, brother of one of Melvin’s victims, Gwen is going hunting. She’s learned how from one of the sickest killers alive.
But what she’s up against is beyond anything she feared—a sophisticated and savage mind game calculated to destroy her. As trust beyond her small circle of friends begins to vanish, Gwen has only fury and vengeance to believe in as she closes in on her prey. And sure as the night, one of them will die.
BOOK REVIEW
Once again Rachel has written an absolutely stunning book. This is the second in a series and I would HIGHLY recommend reading the first before you read this one. The first book was a ferocious debut for this series and it will forever be one of my favorites. But Killman Creek has only upped the ante for the third in the series coming soon!
We meet Gwen Proctor again with her two children Lanny and Connor who are on the run from her murderous ex husband. After the findings of a local policeman that had taken the steps to follow after her husband kidnapped her children she knew she had to leave Stillhouse Lake.
Along with Gwen and her children Sam Cade is along to help her as much as he can with his FBI friend Mike Lustig. Both men prove to be a huge promising of help for Gwen and her kids. Not only do they help her they also prove to her that you can’t always trust everyone when videos show up of her helping Melvin while he is carrying Sams sister into their house.
While these videos are released Javier and Kezia who was also in the last book keep the children out of the way in order to keep them safe. But they don’t know just how much Connor is involved with his father.
Lanny and Connor want nothing more than to be safe in a home with their mother. Connor still has a penchant for his dad that he hopes will somehow come true. He still thinks Melvin can be a good guy to him even if all he has ever heard is the sugar coated version that he’s a monster. When Connor is slipped a phone from Lancel Graham that kidnapped him he is told that he isn’t supposed to tell anyone he has it and he can’t contact his dad at any time.
While his mother is away he can’t help but want to get in contact with his dad. He wants that love that he craves so badly from a male figure. He wants to believe his dad is nothing more than a lie that he has been told. But once he starts he can’t stop. And that leads to so much more than he ever realized.
This book was so beyond explosive within the action, layers of mind games, truth and lies. Emotion was ever present in every move that Gwen made because she knew she couldn’t lose her children. That was her kryptonite. And for good reason. They were all she had left that was true in the aftermath of her ex husband and the monstrosity that he was behind closed doors.
Gwen is such an amazing characters who is no holds bar and will risk her life to save her children. She refuses to go down without a fight and you have to give her major props as a parent and person for doing what she does. Yes at times she makes some rash decisions. But all with good reasoning. She literally goes through the ringer with every emotion in this book.
At times she questions everything. But she is nothing but human at the end of the day. Super by all means. But she is still human.
There was nothing that I didn’t love about this book. I had so many feels, cringes, heartbreak and at times anger. But there is nothing better than a book that can elicit every emotion from you within the written pages. And this book is EVERYTHING.
About the Author
Rachel Caine is the New York Times, USA Today, and Amazon Charts bestselling author of more than fifty novels, including the Stillhouse Lake series, the New York Times bestselling Morganville Vampires series, and The Great Library young adult series. She has written suspense, mystery, paranormal suspense, urban fantasy, science fiction, and paranormal young adult fiction. Rachel lives and works in Fort Worth, Texas, with her husband, artist/actor/comic historian R. Cat Conrad, in a gently creepy house full of books.
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