Story Summary

Twenty-five-year-old BJ Wells has had enough of her controlling father and the work on their sprawling family ranch. Determined to carve out her own life, she launches into a computer search for a professional position in a big city. But when a mysterious hacker sends an ominous message into one of her many job searches with the cryptic threat--"Stop now, or you will pay"--BJ refuses to back down.

Against her better judgement, she presses on and finally lands the dream job she's worked so hard to secure but finds herself the target of a chilling obsession. Shadowed by a brilliant but twisted classmate who's been watching her every move, BJ's world spirals into a nightmare propelled by a stalker who plots, abducts, and confines her in his ornate villa. With one chance to send a secret distress signal, she must outwit a captor who knows her darkest fears--and will stop at nothing to possess her entirely.

Will her ingenuity and courage shatter the walls of her gilded prison? . . . or will she become the final piece of his desires?