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    "description": "<p><b>From <i>New York Times</i> bestselling author Nora Roberts comes a novel that explores the dangerous side of desire, when a mystery writer in search of a little peace and quiet instead finds herself ensnared in the world of a real-life serial killer whose craving for murder stops at nothing . . . and no one.<br /></b>&#160;<br /><b>In development as a Netflix original movie starring Alyssa Milano<br /></b><br />After a demanding book tour, superstar mystery novelist Grace McCabe decides to visit her sister, Kathleen, who&rsquo;s embroiled in a custody battle after a bitter divorce. Arriving in D.C., Grace is shocked to find Kathleen living in a run-down neighborhood and, hoping to afford a hotshot lawyer, supplementing her meager teacher&rsquo;s salary by moonlighting as a phone sex operator. <br />According to Kathleen, Fantasy, Inc., guarantees its employees ironclad anonymity. But Grace has her doubts&mdash;which are confirmed one horrifying cherry-blossom-scented night when one of Fantasy, Inc.&rsquo;s operators is murdered. As Grace is drawn to help solve the crime, her life turns into a scene from one of her own books. Yet as one of her biggest fans, investigator Ed Jackson, warns her: This isn&rsquo;t fiction. Real people die&mdash;and Grace could be next. For she&rsquo;s hoping to trap a killer more twisted than anything she could imagine. And not even Ed may be able to protect her from a rendezvous with lust and death.</p>",
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