![]() Trapped in Vess's deadly orbit, Chyna thinks only of getting out alive. Edgler Vess is a self-proclaimed „homicidal adventurer”: On this night, his adventure-murdering everyone in the house-becomes Chyna's long nightmare. One of his favorites, GOD FEARS ME, is sometimes the last thing he whispers to his victims. ![]() He likes to make words with the letters from his name-GOD, DEMON, SAVE, RAGE, ANGER, FEAR, FOREVER, are just a few of them-and then makes sentences with the words. A man has entered the house, a man who lives for one purpose: to satisfy all appetites as they arise, to immerse himself in sensation, to live without fear, remorse, or limits-to live with intensity. And in this case her most disturbing instincts prove reliable. ![]() Suspicions she learned in childhood still make her uneasy in unfamiliar houses-even this one, where her closest friend is sound asleep down the hall. ![]() Now rare trust has blossomed for Chyna into friendship with the woman whose family home she is visiting for the weekend: a farm in the Napa Valley surrounded by vineyards and hills, which Chyna can see from the guest-room window where she sits at one o'clock in the morning, fully dressed, unable to sleep. Chyna Shepherd is a twenty-six-year-old woman whose deeply troubled childhood taught her the hard rules of survival, and whose adult life has been an unrelenting struggle for self-respect and safety. ![]()
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