CHAPTER ONE

The first thriller in the Blackstone and Prescott series by New York Times and USA Today best selling author, Linda S. Prather. Adam Blackstone is challenged to a unique game of chess by a deranged opponent. There won't be a stalemate, resignation or draw-the only way to win the game is CHECKMATE.

Serial killers were an obsession of Adam Blackstone. A psychopath himself, the darkness inside him leads him not only to the bodies but into the minds of the killers.

Teamed up with feisty FBI agent Samantha Prescott, Blackstone returns to the city of his birth, Lexington, Kentucky to play an endgame he soon realizes he can't win...unless he kills. And once he kills, the darkness will consume him and he won't be able to turn back.