Brenda Novak 
Her Darkest Nightmare 
He wanted her dead then. He wants her dead now. (Evelyn Talbot series, Book 1)

This is SILENCE OF THE LAMBS meets Karen Rose…New York Times bestseller Brenda Novak’s first novel in the in the Evelyn Talbot series, Her Darkest Nightmare, has been described by Karen Rose as ’gut-gripping suspense’. Psychiatrist Dr Evelyn Talbot thought she had experienced her darkest nightmare when she was targeted as a teenager by a killer, but she’s about to find out that some nightmares return again and again…Dr Evelyn Talbot has learnt to live with fear. As a teenager she was targeted by her boyfriend, Jasper Moore, and survived days of torture. She escaped with her life, but Jasper disappeared before he could be caught.Now Evelyn Talbot lives in a world of psychopaths.As the pioneering head of the Hanover House institute in Alaska, she engages daily with killers who have no conscience, no remorse and an ever-increasing desire to murder her. Her only desire is to try and figure out why they do what they do and stop them.But when a mutilated body is found in her sleepy Alaskan town Evelyn is forced to question herself, her inmates and whether her darkest nightmare has come back to haunt her…Look for the other gripping novels in the Evelyn Talbot series – Hello Again, Face Off and the prequel novella, Hanover House, available now.