Jagged Fate

There are over fifteen thousand homicides committed in the United States each year. Depraved madman Gerald Rucker has spent a lifetime contributing to those statistics through the murders of more than fifteen women. But the selection of his latest victim has come at a price. Her death has inspired a deep thirst for revenge in an unlikely adversary: attorney Nick Lacour. Lacour¿s newfound fury rivals the killer¿s thirst for blood¿now the hunter has become the hunted.Through a series of dramatic events, Rucker and Lacour enter a collision course that threatens to destroy everyone and everything in their path. This unavoidable conflict is enhanced by their shared interest in the beautiful and exotic Angela Graves. Lacour will do anything in his power to protect her; and Rucker will stop at nothing until she¿s dead. Linked by fate, these three completely different people meet in one final, cataclysmic confrontation that will leave you breathless and emotionally ravaged.¿The suspense in Jagged Fate is so intense, that I jumped a foot every time I heard a noise in the house. If a man in uniform had rung the doorbell, I would have never opened the door.¿¿Beth Bruno, editor and author of Wild TulipsDebut novelist Santel delves deep into Gerald's psyche, rendering a vivid and disturbing psychopath. -Kirkus Discoveries