Karen Mauck – författare

Can a woman who doesn''t remember her past trust a man who can''t put the past behind him?

Amanda Cross finds herself in a hospital bed, unsure of how she got there or, worse yet, who she is after an attack left her near death and with amnesia. Three people claim to know who she is: an overprotective sibling, a scheming ex-boyfriend, and the police detective assigned to her case who remembers all too well the past they shared together.

All three may have ulterior motives for trying to help her regain her memory or not regain it at all. Amanda must struggle to recover her memory and learn whom to trust before her past comes back to haunt her.

With only twisted nursery rhymes as clues, a tough, dedicated cop puts his life, and his heart, on the line to protect a schoolteacher and her young students from a killer calling himself Father Noose.

Jillian Hobart is passionate about teaching and devoted to her class of kindergartners. But someone else is showing a more deadly interest in her students, leaving eerie nursery rhymes behind as her students begin to disappear.

Deputy Sheriff Peter Dack is attracted to Jillian''s quiet intensity even though his job requires he keep her at arm''s length. But working together to stop the killer brings them into close contact, increasing the heat even as it becomes apparent that the intended target may not be Jillian''s students but rather Jillian herself.

Things aren''t always as they seem for Veronica Park. As her life unfolds in the black and white of the nation''s newspapers, as collected in a scrapbook by her obsessed mother, can you read between the lines and see the real story? "Police say Mrs. Stanley discovered her husband''s body after returning from the grocery store. Veronica was not home at the time of her step-father''s death, as she had been attending an elite boarding school. She has since been pulled from the school and will remain with her mother." Reader participation is crucial, as what isn''t said may be more intruiging than what is.