In this third fast-paced installation of Hooper's Fear trilogy (after Chill of Fear), Riley is on assignment on Opal Island off the coast of South Carolina, summoned there by her ex-army friend, Gordon Skinner, to investigate possible occult activity.

Psychic FBI agent Riley Crane wakes up one afternoon covered in blood (not her own), with a pounding headache and no memory of the last three weeks or her clairvoyant sense. This time evil isn’t just closer than she thinks–it’s already there. For what Riley can’t remember is more than enough to cost her her life. But one of these four men knows exactly what’s going on in this coastal community, and that’s knowledge Riley desperately needs.

Both her old retired army buddy Gordon Skinner and Sheriff Jake Ballard believe she can catch a vicious killer. And a bizarre murder is only the first jarring reminder of how high the stakes really are.īishop wants Riley off the case. Worse yet, with SCU resources stretched thinner than ever before, Riley is alone and without backup, feeling her way through a deadly game of blindman’s buff, where no one around her is quite who or what they seem. Now she’s awoken to discover that she’s got a sexy new man in her life and an unreliable memory, and that the clairvoyant abilities she’s always depended on to protect her are MIA. The SCU’s expert on the occult, she’d been sent to the beachfront cottage on Opal Island by her enigmatic chief, Noah Bishop, to investigate reports of dangerous occult activity.īut that was three weeks ago. In fact, she barely remembered the previous three weeks.Īn ex-army officer, now a federal agent assigned to the Special Crimes Unit, Riley was a chameleon–a clairvoyant who could blend in with her surroundings, be anyone or anything she chose to be. Even more frightening, she didn’t remember what happened the night before. Riley Crane woke up fully dressed, a gun under her pillow, and covered in blood.

In this terrifying novel, a psychic special agent finds herself caught up in a tangled web of secrets, lies. Bestselling author Kay Hooper returns with a relentless thriller that brings her readers face-to-face with fear itself.

Sleeping with Fear by Kay Hooper