Novelists tend to have very passionate fans, but when those fans cross the line to become stalkers, it's another story. Gillian receives a letter that threatens her life, and she's frozen in fear. Two years before, her best friend was killed after receiving the same threat. Since then, Gillian has left the city and moved to a small, rural town to stay out of sight. So how did the stalker find her? That's when an enigmatic man named Taggart appears in her life and tells her with uncanny certainty that he will protect her.