Maggie Fraser has spent 12 years in prison for a crime she didn't commit. After a scandalous trial, she tried to kill herself and failed. Now this is all behind her. She is still young and attractive and free...free to start a new life, alone and unknown. Maggie eagerly looks forward to a...  more

Maggie Fraser has spent 12 years in prison for a crime she didn't commit. After a scandalous trial, she tried to kill herself and failed. Now this is all behind her. She is still young and attractive and free...free to start a new life, alone and unknown. Maggie eagerly looks forward to a job at the local newspaper on the New England island of Heron's Neck. When she arrives at the newspaper, she is met with hostility from two women, Grace and Evy, who work there, Maggie quickly proves herself as a competent reporter. Soon Maggie and the ruggedly handsome co-worker Jess are drawn into a passionate love affair. When Maggie learns that the much younger Evy is in love with Jess, Maggie is torn between continuing her relationship with Jess and not hurting Evy. Then without warning, Maggie is plunged into a world of terror. First someone puts deadly fragments of glass in a pie that Maggie baked for a local fair. Then she finds a puppy hideously electrocuted in her bathtub...and Jess, the man she has come to love, mysteriously disappears without a trace. Horrified, Maggie realizes she is being stalked and tormented by a deranged killer who is determined to teach her that there is no sanctuary and no escape for the Unforgiven.

SOMEONE KNOWS LANA'S SECRET - AND HE'S DYING TO TELL. LANA GRANGER LIVES A LIFE OF LIES. She has told so many lies about where she comes from and who she is that the truth is like a cloudy nightmare she can't quite recall. About to graduate from college and with her trust fund almost tapped...  more

SOMEONE KNOWS LANA'S SECRET - AND HE'S DYING TO TELL. LANA GRANGER LIVES A LIFE OF LIES. She has told so many lies about where she comes from and who she is that the truth is like a cloudy nightmare she can't quite recall. About to graduate from college and with her trust fund almost tapped out, she takes a job babysitting a troubled boy named Luke. Expelled from schools all over the country, the manipulative young Luke is accustomed to control­ling the people in his life. But, in Lana, he may have met his match. Or has Lana met hers?  When Lana's closest friend, Beck, mysteriously disappears, Lana resumes her lying ways--to friends, to the police, to herself. The police have a lot of questions for Lana when the story about her where­abouts the night Beck disappeared doesn't jibe with eyewitness accounts. Lana will do anything to hide the truth, but it might not be enough to keep her ominous secrets buried: someone else knows about Lana's lies. And he's dying to tell.  Lisa Unger's writing has been hailed as "stellar" (USA Today), "arresting and meaningful" (Washington Post) with "gripping narrative and evocative, muscular prose" (Associated Press). Masterfully suspenseful, finely crafted, and written with a no-holds-barred raw power, In the Blood is Unger at her best.