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In His Sights
A True Story of Love and Obsession

by Kate Brennan

     

In His Sights is Kate Brennan's own horrifying story of being stalked. It is a living nightmare that has yet to come to an end.

It all began when Kate became friends with the couple who lived across the hall from her apartment.  At a party Jen invited her to, she met Jen's brother, Roger.  She was about to shake hands with him, until she looked at his eyes. They were pale blue and cold as ice.  He never really looked at her, but seemed to be focused on something behind her.

His son, Paul, was charming and outgoing, the direct opposite of Roger.  He was good looking in a rugged sort of way.  The thing Kate noticed most was that his eyes were the same icy blue as his father's, but they weren't cold.

Over the next few weeks, Kate began to date Paul, slowly getting to know him.  She liked being around him.  But, she realized, she wasn't really getting to know him.  Though she'd told him a great deal about herself, he'd told her almost nothing about himself.  Every attempt she made to get him to open up about his childhood, his family, or his first marriage was met with a cold silence.

Though she was hesitant, Kate allowed herself to fall in love with Paul. Still, she knew very little about him.  He was very, very wealthy as a result of the companies he'd inherited from his mother.  He used his money to trap women into owing him everything—except Kate.

By this time, Kate had moved into Paul's house.  His father was strangled with his own belt, leaving Paul heir to his immense fortune, as well.

In His Sights is a chilling tale, made more frightening because it is true.  It reads like a fiction thriller, very well told indeed.  And Kate Brennan sounds a clear warning to women everywhere.  If a man won't talk about himself, he probably has plenty to hide.  Women, read this book and save yourselves from a similar fate.

The Book

HarperCollins
August 5, 2008
Hardcover
978-0-06-14516-7
Memoir / Suspense / True Crime
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Excerpt
NOTE: Contains profanity, sexual situations

The Reviewer

Jo Rogers
Reviewed 2009
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