
Morningstar
Peter Atkins
238 pages · ISBN 9780002239080
Synopsis
Summer in San Francisco. And a killer is on the loose. Twelve victims so far. Men, women, children. All riturally disfigured. Scrawled in each victim's blood, a single word: Morningstar. The citizenry is terrified. The police are powerless. And two innocent people suddenly find their lives swept up in a maelstrom of madness and murder. Shelley Masterton -- her dreams invaded by a dead friend, one of the killer's victims --- becomes an unwitting recruit in a plan for revenge from beyond the grave. And Donovan Moon, freelance journalist, recieves a phone call offering him the scoop of a lifetime. Morningstar is on the line. And he wants to talk. Inexorably drawn into a nightmare of death, destiny, and unholy power--the roots of which go far deeper than the recent string of killings -- Donovan and Shelley, more than their own lives and sanity at stake, must find the truth amidst a whirlwind of terror, mayhem, and dark desire. Before it finds them ..."----