Lindsay is left with an image of Rick’s green SUV flying around the neighborhood along with pieces of Rick-a blue contact lens in Mrs. But that’s always a good start.Rick’s car blows up in his driveway. In spite of his mundane existence, Fred possesses tidbits of knowledge about such things as hidden microphones, guns, the inside of maximum security prisons and how to take someone down with a well-aimed kick to his chin.As Lindsay battles the elusive stalker, poisoned chocolate, and the dead man, she will need more than a chocolate fix to survive. Secrets from Paula's past have come back to put lives in jeopardy.Determined to help Paula, Lindsay enlists the reluctant aid of another neighbor, Fred, an OCD computer nerd. Suddenly she finds herself battling poisoned chocolate, a psycho stalker, and a dead man who seems awfully active for a corpse.Her best friend and co-worker, Paula, dyes her blonde hair brown, hides from everybody and insists on always having an emergency exit from any room.

But someone wants her dead and uses her weak spot-chocolate-to try to murder her.Lindsay's only secret is the recipe for her chocolate chip cookies, but she is surrounded by neighbors with deadly secrets.

It never cheats on her like her almost-ex-husband. Charley blackmailed his murderer, blackmailed Amanda's father, lied about his family being dead when he is actually related to half the town of Silver Creek, Texas, and, with his treachery, has stirred up secrets that will change Amanda's life. As Amanda puts her life in danger in an effort to bring Charley's murderer to justice and send him into the light or the dark or anywhere away from her, she learns her knowledge of Charley's misdeeds is only the tip of a toxic iceberg. She can't even be certain he isn't peeking when she undresses for bed. The situation was bad enough when he was alive and trying to charm his way back into her life, but now he claims to be unable to go more than a few yards away from her. He was rejected, kicked back, not allowed to go into the light. But she's the primary suspect in Charley's murder and, as if that isn't bad enough, Charley's ghost shows up in her apartment. And not just dead…murdered.On the good side, at least they are no longer married.

Then she discovers he'd been dead for several hours at the time she thought he rescued her. When Amanda's lying, cheating, scam-artist husband, Charley, saves her life in a near-fatal motorcycle accident, she can almost forgive him for dragging his feet on their divorce.

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