Joy Fielding

A writer who pushes the limits in her controversial column for the Palm Beach Past, Charley Webb has spent years building an emotional wall against scathing critics, snooty neighbors, and her own disapproving family. When a death row inmate asks Charley to write her biography and expose the hidden truths behind her trial and conviction for the murders of three children, Charley jumps at the career-making opportunity. But getting inside the mind of this deeply troubled woman has Charley walking a fine line—and in a series of threatening anonymous letters, someone is targeting Charley's own son and daughter....
With time spinning down to a terrifying climax, Charley is forced to cast the seemingly intrusive people from her past in a new light-for they may be her only hope of getting out alive.