A teenage daughter and her disturbed online lover plot her mother’s brutal murder in this classic true-crime thriller by New York Times bestselling journalist M. William Phelps.
“Phelps is the Harlan Coben of real-life thrillers.”
—Allison Brennan
An online love affair, a mother’s anguish, a shockingly brutal murder…
Jeanne Dominico was a hard-working single mother. Nicole, her fourteen-year-old daughter, was on the honor roll—and head over heels in love with an older teen she’d met through the Internet. Once the lovers met in person, Jeanne sensed trouble. If only she’d known that the life in danger was her own.
With a history of psychological trouble and family misfortune, Billy Sullivan demanded obsessive and controlling power over Nicole. The twisted Romeo and Juliet responded to Jeanne’s motherly concern with brutal fury—her fiancé discovered Jeanne’s beaten, barely recognizable body on the kitchen floor. Nicole’s stunning confession and guilty plea led to Billy’s sensational trial, where a sordid tale of love, loss, betrayal, and murder finally took a cold-blooded killer offline—and on line for justice.
INCLUDES 16 PAGES OF SHOCKING PHOTOS

“Phelps is one of America’s finest true-crime authors.”
—Vincent Bugliosi
“Phelps knows how to work it.”
—Marilyn Stasio, The New York Times Book Review

“Master of true crime.”
—Real Crime magazine
“Anything by Phelps is an eye-opening experience.”
—Suspense Magazine

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