“Gorman’s writing is strong, fast and sleek as a bullet. He’s one of the best.”—Dean Koontz

It all started so innocently. It was just a group of buddies meeting for a weekly poker game. No harm done—until the night an intruder broke in while they were playing. They didn't mean to kill him, that was an accident. They thought if they threw the body in the river no one would ever know. That's where they were wrong. Dead wrong.

The intruder hadn't come alone. His friend was waiting for him outside the house and he saw it all. Suddenly the game had changed. What had started out as a simple poker game now became a game of cat and mouse. The stakes were raised too—to life and death. And it looked like the attacker in the shadows held all the cards.

"Scary because it's so plausible, and because Gorman knows exactly how to keep the reader on the edge of his seat."—Science Fiction Chronicle

“One of Gorman’s strongest yet . . . a sense of menace that grows until it becomes almost palpable.”—Forthcoming Mysteries