She saw him in the shadows.She felt him watching her.She knew he was going to get her...The killer always left a signature on his victims...an X carved in their flesh.But he'd spent the last twenty years in a mental hospital.Long enough for the world to forget him.But not long enough for him to forget the rich old woman who had him committed--or her pretty granddaughter.Now he's been set free.Ellie Duveen was busy running her own restaurant and tenderly watching over her fragile grandmother.Then she met former cop Dan Cassidy, the owner of a local vineyard, and Ellie's hectic life slowed just enough to let her fall in love.So Ellie didn't notice when police found a dead body marked with a grisly X.She only felt someone watching her.Following her.And as a terrifying secret came back from the past to haunt her, Ellie needed an ex-cop's instincts and more.She needed her own unshakable courage to outsmart a killer's deadly, twisted plan.From the Paperback edition.