Loverboy

A one-time star reporter for a popular New York tabloid, Lucy Shannon built her reputation on the sordid, unsolved "Loverboy" case. Now more than a decade has passed since the madman's last victim was discovered - a decade that has not been easy on the tormented newspaperwoman. Three failed marriages, numerous alcoholic interludes and ten-plus haunted years of dark, disturbing memories have left Lucy feeling drained and defeated at age thirty-six. But this summer, as a movie crew takes to the sweltering Manhattan streets to film the "Loverboy" story, she has been given one last chance to restart her life and revive her fading career. Because suddenly, without warning, the killings have begun again. The love notes are back...and the bodies. And once again a cunning, faceless madman has chosen Lucy to be his voice and his go-between, sharing with her and her alone the details of his heinous, unspeakable acts. But something sets this "Loverboy" apart from the one who paralyzed a metropolis back in the 1980s. Every nerve in Lucy's body screams that this killer has a different, more terrifying agenda...and that he's closer to her than she ever dared to fear. No one trusts Lucy's suspicions: not the ambitious Police Commissioner with his eyes on the Mayor's mansion, not a film director desperate for a hit, not the powers at a newspaper locked in a circulation war. In this summer of blood, Lucy Shannon is on her own - with a rare opportunity for another fifteen minutes of fame and a chance to put her nightmares, at long last, to rest. But first she must survive the lethal love of a determined lady-killer.