Jack Whitman is a powerful executive with a massive multimedia conglomerate. He is extremely well-paid, highly ambitious, and desperately lonely since his wife's murder. Then one night on a subway car, his eyes meet those of a woman he cannot forget.Dolores Salcines is a ravaged beauty on the knife-edge of despair-a woman on the run with secrets, and good reason to hide them. What she needs is a savior-an impulsive rescue from a dire past. What she has found is a man willing to give it to her. It begins as a reckless liaison. It spirals into a nightmare that threatens Jack's career, his fortune, and his life. A trap has been set. For Jack, the only chance at escape is to submit to the one final dangerous urge that resides in the dark side of every human heart.AUTHORBIO: COLIN HARRISON is the deputy editor of Harper's Magazine and the author of Break and Enter, Bodies Electric, Manhattan Nocturne, and Afterburn. He and his wife, Kathryn Harrison, live in Brooklyn.