Peril A Novel

Sara Labriola is a married woman haunted by the shattering secrets of her pastand terrified of the future. Tired of living in fearand knowing that if she stays in her marriage she'll be killedSara decides to do the only thing she can: she makes herself disappear. One afternoon, without telling a soul, she packs a single suitcase and leaves her life in Long Island behind. In New York City, she will reinvent herself. She will change her identity, and maybe even get the happy ending she's always dreamed of. But that dream is about to become a nightmare when her father-in-law decides to make her pay for abandoning his son. Leo Labriola runs his modest but lucrative criminal organization like he does his familywith unspeakable brutality and zero tolerance for disobedience. He's determined to teach Sara a lesson and he'll stop at nothing to do it. Now six differently desperate and dangerous meneach with the power to destroy herare on Sara's trail. But none of them suspect that the woman they are seeking has a dangerous secret of her own. For Sara is leading all of them down a path of private demons, past sins, and the deadliest peril. From the Hardcover edition.

Thomas H. Cook is the author of sixteen novels, including <i>The Chatham School Affair</i>, winner of the Edgar Award for Best Novel; <i>The Interrogation</i>; <i>Instruments of Night</i>; <i>Breakheart Hill</i>; <i>Mortal Memory</i>; <i>Sacrificial Ground </i>and Blood <i>Innocents</i>, both Edgar Award nominees; and two early works about true crimes, <i>Early Graves</i> and <i>Blood Echoes</i>. He lives in New York City and Cape Cod, where he is at work on his next novel.<br><br><br><i>From the Hardcover edition.</i>