“Vivid, startling . . . a compelling page-turner.”
Rose Daniels saw the single drop of blood on the bedsheet—and knew she must escape from her macabre marriage before it was too late.
But escape was not as easy as fleeing to a new city, picking a new name, finding a new job, lucking out with a new man. Her husband, Norman, was a cop, with a cop’s training, a cop’s technology, a cop’s bloodhound instincts. And even worse, Norman was—well, Norman. Rose knew she had been married to a savage brute. Now she realized she was being tracked down by a terrifying monster—but the only place she found to hide could be the most dangerous of all….
“A corker, tense and frightening throughout … Rose is the most richly portrayed female King’s ever created.”
“A boiling-hot shocker.”
—Cleveland Plain Dealer
“Rousing … vivid and sensitive.”
“One of King’s most engrossing horror novels. Relentlessly paced and brilliantly orchestrated…. A phantasmagorical roller-coaster ride, peopled by a broad array of indelibly characterized men and women and fueled by an air of danger immediate and overwhelming.”
“Stephen King is a marvelous writer. His style crackles. His storyline skitters along, pausing for the kaboom, then moves to the next terror. His imagination is beyond the edge…. He had me hooked.”
