Scare Card by Matty Dalrymple

Scare Card by Matty Dalrymple

When Lizzy Ballard's enemies play their cruelest card, can she outsmart them before her life and the lives of those she loves are dealt a fatal blow?

For years, Lizzy Ballard has been running: from the fertility-clinic experiment that made her what she is, from the trail of bodies her power has left in its wake, and from Louise Mortensen, the brilliant, glacial scientist who engineered her. Now Lizzy is hiding out under a fake ID, bankrolling the handful of people she loves one rigged poker hand at a time, and letting herself believe she's learned to control the lethal gift she was born with.

Then Louise takes someone Lizzy can't afford to lose, and the terms are simple. Come to a fortress buried deep in the Maryland woods. Bring the one man who has kept her alive. But what waits behind those mirrored windows is even more dangerous than Louise: a thug who hides his violence behind easy charm, and a plan that means to turn Lizzy from hostage into weapon. The grounds are walled and guarded, the phones are silenced, and every person who loves her is now a chip someone else is holding.

SCARE CARD is a taut story of loyalty, complicity, and the brutal math of love that asks one unbearable question: how much of what Lizzy does is choice, and how much was decided for her before she could speak? For readers of Stephen King's Firestarter who like a cold, calculating villain at the center, Scare Card deals Lizzy into a game where the people she loves are the stakes-and she's about to learn what it costs to be holding the deadliest hand at the table.

Dalrymple, Matty: - Matty Dalrymple is the author of the Ann Kinnear Suspense Novels, The Sense of Death and The Sense of Reckoning, and Rock Paper Scissors: A Lizzy Ballard Thriller, which launches in March 2017. She lives with her husband, Wade Walton, and their dogs in Chester County, Pennsylvania, which is the setting for much of the action in The Sense of Death and Rock Paper Scissors. In the summers they enjoy vacationing on Mt. Desert Island, Maine, where The Sense of Reckoning takes place. Matty's husband is a pilot and Matty has logged time in a Piper Warrior, a Cessna 150, and a 1946 Stinson Voyager--she's considering an aviation-based plot for the third Ann Kinnear book. Learn more at mattydalrymple.com.

SKU	Unavailable
ISBN 13	9781959882084
ISBN 10	1959882082
Title	Scare Card
Author	Matty Dalrymple
Series	Lizzy Ballard Thrillers
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	William Kingsfield Publishers
Year published	2024-01-05
Number of pages	342
Cover note	Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.