Some killers are born. Others are made. As a rookie tabloid reporter, Jenna Sinclair made a tragic mistake when she outed Denny Dennison, the illegitimate son of an executed serial killer. So she hid behind her marriage and motherhood. Now, decades later, betrayed by her husband and resented by her teenage daughter, Jenna decides to resurrect her career―and returns to the city she loves. When her former lover is brutally assaulted outside Jenna’s NYC apartment building, Jenna suspects that Denny has inherited his father’s psychopath gene and is out for revenge. She knows she must track him down before he can harm his next target, her daughter. Meanwhile, her estranged husband, Zack, fears that her investigative reporting skills will unearth his own devastating secret he’d kept buried in the past. From New York City to the remote North Fork of Long Island and the murky waters surrounding it, Jenna rushes to uncover the terrible truth about a psychopath and realizes her own investigation may save or destroy her family. A Publishers Weekly "notable" mystery/thriller pick for Spring 2022: [A] well-constructed mystery... Elm provides some nice misdirection and loads the plot with liars and murky, shifting motives... Readers will be satisfied— Publishers Weekly "This terrific thriller mixes blood and ink and cuts right from the veins of Elm's days as a gritty Fleet Street investigative reporter on the London Evening News and as a writer/producer for America's top tabloid TV show, A Current Affair, back in its sensational heyday... Finely-tuned with great pace and suspense, Elm puts all of herself into her gutsy heroine, rookie tabloid reporter Jenna Sinclair, who outed Denny Dennison, the illegitimate son of a serial killer... In this riveting stunner, which I couldn't put down, Elm takes us on a wild ride from New York City to remote parts of coastal Long Island and to Florida" — Barry Levine , author of The Spider and All the President's Women is a Pulitzer Prize-nominated veteran investigative reporter and editor, and Huffington Post "Game Changer" award winner. " Deadly secrets from the past catch up with a tabloid reporter in this fascinating thriller from former tabloid journalist Joanna Elm. Full of stunning twists and surprises, and you won't see the ending coming. Read it! "— R.G. Belsky , award-winning author of Beyond The Headlines (Book#4 in the Clare Carlson mystery series) " Joanna Elm has masterfully crafted a stunning thriller that has it all: a beautifully flawed protagonist who we can't help but root for; a complex antagonist with a tragic past; a setting alive with vivid details, and a gripping story with cascading tension that explodes in the well-earned climax. Well done, Elm"— Gregory Lee Renz , author of Beneath The Flames . " Shame that my Cape Cod friend, the author, Mary Higgins Clark, isn't alive to share a ladies lunch with Joanna Elm and me. Mary would have loved Joanna...loved 'Jenna,' the heroine at the helm of her prose; the way her writing intricately weaves lovers, both former and present, in such a way that any one of them could be suspect for murder. There are many suspense novels out there about unstable women, but 'Jenna' is NOT one of them. Fool Her Once, perhaps...fool her twice, not so nice...and then some " — Lois Cahall , #1 bestselling author, Plan C: Just In Case ; Founder, The Palm Beach Book Festival. Joanna Elm is an author, journalist, blogger and an attorney. Before publication of her first two suspense novels ( Scandal , Tor/Forge 1996); ( Delusion , Tor/Forge/1997), she was an investigative journalist on the Evening News on London's Fleet Street in the U.K. She also wrote for British magazines like  Woman's Own . Subsequently, she moved to New York where she worked as a writer/producer for television news and tabloid TV programs like  A Current Affair . She was also the researcher/writer for WNEW-TV's Emmy-award winning documentary  Irish Eyes . In 1980, she joined the  Star  as a reporter, eventually becoming the magazine's news editor and managing editor before moving to Philadelphia as editor of the news/features section of  TV Guide . After completing her first two novels while living in South Florida, (Nelson DeMille described  Scandal  as "fresh, original and unpredictable") Joanna returned to New York, enrolled in law school, graduated summa cum laude, passed the NY Bar exam and worked as principal law clerk for an appellate division justice in the prestigious First Department in Manhattan. She has been married to husband Joe for 35 years, and has one son.