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Bestselling author Alan Jacobson returns with another pulse-pounding thriller that plunges readers deep into the wine caves of the Napa Valley. Following the most challenging case of her career, The 7th Victim heroine and renowned FBI profiler Karen Vail travels to the Napa Valley, hoping for a week of relaxation. Shortly after arriving, a victim is found in the deepest reaches of an exclusive wine cave, the work of a dangerously unpredictable serial killer. From the outset, Vail has difficulty getting a handle on the offender. But when he discovers that she’s serving on the Major Crimes task force, he uses it to his advantage, putting intense pressure on Vail to produce results—or face the deadly consequences.

As the task force struggles to find the killer, they’re caught in a web knotted with secretive organizations, a decades-long feud between prominent wine families and corruption that leads Vail to wonder whom, if anyone, she can trust. While she pursues the truth across historic Napa Valley landmarks and medieval wineries, the victims keep mounting, and Vail can't shake the gnawing sense that something isn't right. With the killer threatening action that would devastate the Napa Valley and its multi-billion dollar industry, the stakes have never been greater, the race to find the killer never more urgent. And with it all, a surprise lurks that Vail never sees coming. Meticulously researched through years of work with the FBI profiling unit and wine industry professionals, Alan Jacobson delivers a high-velocity thriller featuring the kind of edge-of-your-seat ending that inspired Nelson DeMille to call him "a hell of a writer."