"An intriguing suspense!"

This is one book that you definitely want to read when you are not alone and with all of the lights in the house on. In other words, this is my kind of read! Even the prologue to this book sent shivers up my spine!

It begins with the theft of a doll. If Travis McSwain only knew what he was setting himself up for, he'd never have stolen the doll in the first place.

Claire Creasy Girard has never forgiven herself or her ex- husband Dave for her daughter Ruby's disappearance seven years before. She even had to go through therapy because she saw Ruby everywhere she went. She feels she will never get over it because there's been no closure. Ruby's body was never found. Then Claire sees a doll in a shop window that looks exactly like Ruby. Before Claire can get to the shop to see the doll up close, she is hit by a car and has to go into the hospital. Of course, when she goes back to the shop, the doll is gone and the shop is closed.

Dave Creasy fell apart when his daughter Ruby disappeared. He started drinking and carousing. It was the beginning of the end when he pulled a gun on Claire and asked her what she did with Ruby. Now Dave is back and is ready to start over but can he pull things back together?

There were some eerie twists and turns in this book that had me turning pages as fast as my fingers and eyes would let me. I could hardly bear to put this intriguing book down. I eagerly look forward to another suspense from Amanda Stevens!

Reviewed by Kathy Boswell
Posted February 21, 2007

Summary

IN TERREBONNE PARISH, A TERRIBLE SECRET IS ABOUT TO BE UNCOVERED... BY A WOMAN WHOSE DAUGHTER VANISHED SEVEN YEARS AGO WITHOUT A TRACE... And now a new clue has surfaced...a doll that is the spitting image of Claire Doucett's missing child, right down to the tiny birth mark on the girl's left arm. A chance sighting of the eerily lifelike doll in a French Quarter collectibles shop leaves Claire shaken to her core...and more determined than ever to find out what happened to her beloved Ruby. When the doll is snatched and the store's owner turns up dead, Claire knows the only person who can help her is ex- husband Dave Creasy, a former cop who has spent the past seven years imprisoned by his own guilt and despair. He let Claire down once when she needed him the most. Can she make him believe the doll really exists? He'll have to if they're to survive an encounter with a brutal psychopath—The Dollmaker—who stole their future to feed an obsession that will never die.