Scared to Death

“Solid Gold Suspense!”

—Lee Child

The phenomenal New York Times bestseller Wendy Corsi Staub returns with Scared to Death, a masterwork of spine-tingling suspense that boldly reaffirms her position among Lisa Jackson, Lisa Gardner, Tami Hoag, and other premier masters of the contemporary thriller. In fact, Lisa Jackson herself promises, “You’ll love Wendy Corsi Staub.” Even if you have yet to experience the delicious chills of her previous dark masterwork, Live to Tell, we guarantee that this pulse-racing story of two mothers who must combat their deepest terrors to protect their endangered children will leave you breathless and…Scared to Death!

Elsa Cavalon—petrified that the nightmare from fifteen years earlier is beginning all over again . . .

Marin Quinn—hiding with her daughters in their concrete fortress, her storybook marriage over . . .

Perfect strangers whose once-perfect lives were cruelly shattered, they're bound by a long-lost child, a fragile strand of newfound maternal hope—and mutual loneliness. Yet Elsa and Marin are never truly alone. Someone is always nearby, watching them and their children. Someone driven by vengeance and the simple poetry of nursery rhymes . . . Someone who must satisfy a dark need with innocent blood. And now time is running out for two mothers stalked by a cunning mastermind who wants to leave them . . .

Scared to death

“Clever, well-written and riveting. Wendy Corsi Staub is a master storyteller!” - New York Times bestselling author Brenda Novak

“Staub keeps things taut and unpredictable…a surprisingly effective thriller.” - Publishers Weekly on Dead Before Dark

From the first thrilling chase scene, to the final page, Wendy Corsi Staub’s Live To Tell is an incredible, fast-paced story of political intrigue, family crises and nail-biting suspense. I couldn’t put it down. - #1 New York Times bestselling author Lisa Jackson