Wicked #05: Wicked Dreams

- Blurb -

New York Times bestselling masters of pulse-pounding suspense Lisa Jackson and Nancy Bush reunite in a gripping stand-alone thriller set in the eerie world of The Colony, a haven on the wild Oregon coast for a group of women marked for death by a madman. On the wild Oregon coast, tucked between the mountains and the sea, stands Siren Song, home to a group of women known as The Colony. Their aunt hoped the isolated lodge would be a sanctuary, a place where she could protect them and their special gifts. But nowhere is safe from the man who has marked them for death . . . The note pinned to the dead body found on the remote beach has no name, just Ravinia Rutledge' s phone number and the words "Next of Kin. " Ravinia insists she doesn' t recognize the man on the mortuary slab, but she suspects Detective Nev Rhodes doesn' t believe her. He can tell that she' s one of them-the Siren Song women. Five years after moving away from The Colony, Ravinia has carved out a life as a private investigator whose specialty is helping others locate their missing loved ones. Yet sometimes, it' s better if the missing are never found. "Good Time Charlie" is the name given to a monster from her past, a man whom she and her sisters hoped was gone forever. But the dead man on the beach is a sign that Charlie has merely been waiting, preparing to fulfill his mission to rid the world of the Siren Song women-and anyone else who gets in his way. Rhodes has his own reasons for being fascinated with The Colony and its surroundings-a place marked by unexplained deaths and tragedies. Rhodes plays by the rules, but there are forces at work here that defy notions of law and order. And despite Ravinia' s reluctance to team up with Nev, it' s the only way to stop an adversary determined to see that each and every member of The Colony will die at his hands . . .