Murder. Intrigue. Money. Art. Duplicity. Deception. This serial killer doesn't just kill, he is bent on a reign of Terribilita the ability to provoke fear, is intrinsic in this serial killer's methodology of death. It happens in the space between two lives. It sleeps in the mind and is awake in a dream. It is there in the Liar's Room, dredged up from the Hudson River, found under a rose bush, it comes before a wedding day. It follows like a subversive shadow. And it's there in the bones, and on a scalpel blade.

To catch the serial killer, Agent Michael Steel from the FBI Elite Serial Crime Unit, must make sense of the obscure: clues from art, codes, bio-molecular science, heartbreak grass, ancient history, urban graffiti, dumpsters, and sugar-coated almonds. The more Agent Steel discovers, the more terrifying the reality.

The latest brutal murders in New York City have become an International crime mystery. Victims of the serial killer are uncovered in New York, Paris, and Beijing. But killing is just the beginning. While Agent Steel searches for patterns and motives in the mind of the international serial killer, he and his pregnant wife and unborn twins become the personal target of another savage killer. A killer with a disturbed poetic mind, and a personal score to settle.

Prose writer, Susan Blanshard and Creative Adman, Bruce Blanshard, have executed unexpected twists and dark surprises in this, their collaborative debut break-away literary crime thriller. Seven countries and four years in the making.