


He lives with his wife and two sons in Atlanta, where he is the English department chair at Holy Innocents’ Episcopal School. He has been a Townsend Prize finalist, longlisted for the Southern Book Prize, and a winner of the Georgia Author of the Year award. in creative writing from Georgia State University. A graduate of Woodberry Forest School in Virginia, he earned his Ph.D. Suzie’s instincts have gotten her this far-but will they be enough against her evil equal?Ĭhristopher Swann is a novelist and high school English teacher. Along the way, she contends with both new and old friends and foes: the vulnerable Brooke, determined to escape her own nightmare her brother Ethan and his new girlfriend, a reminder of a different and more peaceful life her uncle Gavin and his connections to the criminal underworld the street-smart Ajax, a shadowy ally of convenience and an FBI agent who could be friend, foe, or potential lover. Her journey takes her across the United States, from the mountains of Arizona to the river bluffs of Missouri to the streets of Atlanta. The stubborn and skillful Suzie knows just how dangerous he is and how far he will go to complete his vengeance. Or if he finds her first.įinn, an ex-soldier who served alongside Susannah’s father in Iraq, left Suzie with a simple choice a year ago: she could watch her family die one by one, or she could pursue him in a deadly game of cat-and-mouse. And worst of all…she doesn’t know what will happen when she finds him.

She’s hunted down evil men before, but the one man that puts fear into her heart, the one man who could destroy everything she loves, is the one man she cannot track down. For as long as she could remember, Susannah Faulkner knew that even though she lived a dangerous and violent life, she would try her best to do some good in the world.
