Past midnight, Chyna Shepherd, twenty- six, gazed out a moonlit window, unable to sleep on her first night in the Napa Valley home of her best friend's family.&#160;&#160;Instinct proves reliable.&#160;&#160;A murderous sociopath, Edgler Forman Vess, has entered the house, intent on killing everyone inside.&#160;&#160;A self-proclaimed &quot;homicidal adventure,&quot; Vess lives only to satisfy all appetites as the arise, to immense himself in sensation, t o live without fear, remorse or limits, to live with intensity.&#160;&#160;Chyna is trapped in his deadly orbit.<br><br>Chyna is a survivor, toughened by a lifelong struggle for safety and self-respect.&#160;&#160;Now she will be tested as never before.&#160;&#160;At first her sole aim is to get out alive-until, by chance, she learns the identity of Vess's next intended victim, a faraway innocent only she can save.&#160;&#160;Driven by a newly discovered thirst for meaning beyond mere self-preservation, Chyna musters every inner resource she has to save an endangered girl--as moment by moment, the terrifying threat Edgler Foreman Vess intensifies.