Friday, November 25, 2011

Creep

  • self-help
  • relationships
  • sex
  • how-to guide
  • Love
Pulsing with the dark obsession of Radiohead’s song “Creep,” this taut thrillerâ€"Jennifer Hillier’s superb debutâ€"rockets from its seductive opening to a heartpounding climax not easily forgotten.

If he can’t have her . . .

Dr. Sheila Tao is a professor of psychology. An expert in human behavior. And when she began an affair with sexy, charming graduate student Ethan Wolfe, she knew she was playing with fire. Consumed by lust when they were together, riddled with guilt when they weren’t, she knows the three-month fling with her teaching assistant has to end. After all, she’s finally engaged to a kind and loving investment banker who adores her, and she’s taking control of her life. But when she attempts to end the affair, Ethan Wolfe won’t let her walk away.

. . . no ! one else can.

Ethan has plans for Sheila, plans that involve posting a sex video that would surely get her fired and destroy her prestigious career. Plans to make her pay for rejecting him. And as she attempts to counter his every threatening move without her colleagues or her fiancé discovering her most intimate secrets, a shattering crime rocks Puget Sound State University: a female student, a star athlete, is found stabbed to death. Someone is raising the stakes of violence, sex, and blackmail . . . and before she knows it, Sheila is caught in a terrifying cat-and-mouse game with the lover she couldn’t resistâ€"who is now the monster who won’t let her go.London. Midnight. Unable to find a taxi, model-agency booker Kate (Franka Potente) heads underground. Waiting for the last subway train, she dozes off…and awakens to find everyone else gone. Gripped by panic, Kate realizes she’s locked in. But she is not alone. Lurking in the pitch-black maze is somet! hing unimaginable. Something that calls a deranged laboratory ! home. An d something that’s determined to make this subterranean hell Kate’s last stop!Started in 2005 while with "Girl 3," CREEP is a book highlighting several relationships, their ups, downs, insanity, real conversations, emails, text messages, letters, visits to the shrink, and oh so much more. Between the insanity, sex tips, anecdotes, and tomfoolery exists for the reader to absorb and put into practice. Names have been changed to protect the shamed. Includes inserts from several friends, case studies on a brother or two and Foreword by: R. Molden. Edited by: Janna Hall

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