And this time Detective Reuben Montoya may pay the price. Its sins must be avenged, its wrongs righted. Plunging deep into a nightmare investigation will uncover a shocking revelation - a deadly connection between Abby and Montoya and an asylum where unspeakable crimes were committed, evil once roamed free, and a human predator may still wait. As more bodies are found in gruesome, staged scenarios and the FBI moves in, Montoya's in a desperate race to find a killer whose crimes are getting more terrifying, and closer all the time. Abby Chastain can help unlock the mystery - if only Montoya can get her to trust him enough to face the ghosts of her past. His gut tells him his prime suspect is innocent, just like it's telling him there's something significant about the once-grand hospital now decaying in a gloomy thicket of ancient live oaks. Something about Abby - her spirit and her honest fear - gets to Montoya. Abby has always dreaded that she too would one day go insane.especially now, back in this town, where she's begun to feel watched, as if the devil himself is scraping a fingernail along her spine. Twenty years ago she watched in horror as her mother, a patient at the Our Lady of Virtues Mental Hospital, plunged through a window to her death.

Abby Chastain is a woman haunted by painful secrets. His only lead is the ex-wife of one of the victims. Somebody's playing a sick game, and Montoya intends to beat him at it. The victims are killed in pairs - no connection, no apparent motive, no real clues. He'll need it, because a serial killer is turning The Big Easy into his personal playground. Thanks to years of working with the dark side of society, his youthful swagger is gone, replaced by straightforward determination. Detective Reuben 'Diego' Montoya is back in New Orleans. Abby already fears she may have inherited her mother's penchant for tragedy and though she begins to fall for Montoya, she knows that a cop is someone she needs to avoid.īut fate and the killer have other plans. Some of those demons are connected directly to Our Lady Of Virtues and a darkly dangerous killer who has reappeared, ready to wreak his own special and deadly vengeance on Abby and those she loves. Faith spent most of her adult life in Our Lady Of Virtues mental hospital and now, twenty years later, the daughter who looks so much like her, has her own demons to deal with. Then the words flow as fast as her fingers fly on her computer keyboard when she writes.

Lisa's fans have been clamoring for his story and finally, with Abby Chastain, Lisa found a heroine who could go toe to toe with Montoya.Ībby Chastain, is the beautiful and haunted daughter of Faith Chastain. Lisa Jackson When asked what has inspired her to write more than 50 novels brimming with adventure, intrigue, hot passion, and high emotion, bestselling Oregon author, Lisa Jackson gets a mischievous smile on her face. SHIVER is Lisa Jackson's first original hard back novel, and it's now available paperback! The story centers around Detective Reuben Montoya of the New Orleans Police Department who first appeared in HOT BLOODED and then in subsequent novels, COLD BLOODED and THE NIGHT BEFORE.

Shiver by lisa jackson