A double life with a single purpose: revenge.
Jane’s days at a Midwest insurance company are perfectly ordinary. She blends in well, unremarkably pretty in her floral-print dresses and extra efficient at her low-level job. She’s just the kind of woman middle manager Steven Hepsworth likes—meek, insecure, and willing to defer to a man. No one has any idea who Jane really is. Least of all Steven.
But plain Jane is hiding something. And Steven’s bringing out the worst in her.
Nothing can distract Jane from going straight for his heart: allowing herself to be seduced into Steven’s bed, to insinuate herself into his career and his family, and to expose all his dirty secrets. It’s time for Jane to dig out everything that matters to Steven. So she can take it all away.
Just as he did to her.
Doesn’t the blurb make you want to dive right in to discover just what all that revenge is about?
She’s cold, calculating, and can deceive with a smile. Jane Doe is back in the Amazon Charts bestselling series—and this time she’s met her match.
After a brutal childhood, Jane Doe has been permanently wired to look after herself and only herself. Now, looking next to normal, Jane has a lover and a job. But she hasn’t lost her edge. It sharpens when she hears from her estranged family.
Jane’s deeply troubled sixteen-year-old niece, Kayla, has vanished, and no one seems to care. Neither does Jane. Until she sees a picture of Kayla and recognizes herself in the young girl’s eyes. It’s the empty stare of a sociopath.
Jane knows what vengeful and desperate things Kayla is capable of. Only Jane can help her—by being drawn into Kayla’s dark world. And no one’s more aware than Jane just how dangerous that can be.
Are Suspense and Romance so different?
“I’ve loved being able to stretch out and explore the darker edges of human behavior. In fact, maybe I’ve loved it too much. My current release is Jane Doe, and I went a little wild exploring boundaries in this one. You see, Jane is a sociopath, so she not only has no need for forgiveness, she has no forgiveness for others either,” Ms. Stone said over at CrimeReads when Jane Doe released. “I went as deep and dark as I could with this book. And it’s told from the first person point of view, so there’s no escaping Jane’s more frightening thoughts. But the funny thing is… being freed from the walls of likeability and normal behavior let me feel I could pull a bit more romance into this book. The suspense genre has walls too, and the more familiar I become with this genre, the more I’m looking for loose bricks, pushing the edges, bringing in a little more sex and love.” You can read her entire article here.
Be sure to check out the Reviews for the book, and then definitely begin a scary and exciting journey with Victoria Helen Stone and Jane Doe.
