Family: can’t live with them, can’t kill them.Caitlin Devers dropped out of college to marry a wealthy widower twice her age. When he died, her two step-children—her own age—accused her of killing him for his millions. Now someone is stalking her stepdaughter Joan, and she turns to Hartford PI Zach Barnes for help.Barnes finds a family full of scars that even money can’t heal, but no proof that the stalker really exists—until someone kills Joan’s boyfriend. When someone tries to kill Adam, the stepson, too, Barnes knows it can’t be a coincidence, and that the man who isn’t there is getting closer all the time. A former English teacher, actor, director, and musician, Steve Liskow now serves as a panelist and mentor for both Mystery Writers of America and Sisters in Crime. He is also a member of International Thriller Writers. To satisfy his teaching Jones, he conducts several workshops on fiction writing and serves as a freelance fiction editor. He has been a finalist for the Shamus Award from the Private Eye Writers of America and the Edgar Award from Mystery Writers of America. His stories have also won the Black Orchid Novella Award and Honorable Mention for the Al Blanchard Story Award (twice). This is his tenth novel.