Deborah Woehr

The first day of Julie Hutchinson’s nightmare starts out perfectly normal, despite her stepson’s need to cut himself. She goes to bed that night, worrying about him and whether or not her husband, Hut, is cheating on her. The next day, she learns that Hut was murdered by an unknown serial killer, who has drawn strange symbols on the body.

The body “disappears” while en route to an NYC morgue, which doesn’t surprise the police since all of the bodies in these killings have disappeared. As the story unfolds, Julie learns about her husband’s involvement in a military paranormal experiment called Project Daylight, which was closed down after a brutal murder occurred.

The clues keep coming, throwing her into a world of paranoia and outright creepiness. Someone is coming to her and her young daughter at night, but she isn’t able to get much proof to convince her family. When her mother takes her to see psychic Michael Diamond (John Edward’s militant brother), the terror escalates.

Michael not only shatters her beliefs about the afterlife, but shows her a side of her husband that she never wanted to see. By the last quarter of the book, I wanted to see if/how she and her kids would escape. Instead, I was left hanging and wondering if there is going to be a sequel.

The only thing I didn’t like were all the sex scenes. I’m still not sure exactly what their purpose was, except to perhaps illustrate Julie’s grief and make her doubt her own sanity. Despite this qualm, I highly recommend this book to anyone who enjoys horror and suspense.