<i><b>How do you kill something that was never born…</b></i><br><br>Thad Beaumont would like to say he is innocent.<br><br>He’d like to say he has nothing to do with the series of monstrous murders that keep coming closer to his home.<br><br>He’d like to say he has nothing to do with the twisted imagination that produced his bestselling novels.<br><br>He’d like to say he has nothing to do with the voice on the phone uttering its obscene threats and demanding total surrender.<br><br>But how can Thad disown the ultimate embodiment of evil that goes by the name he gave it—and signs its crimes with Thad’s bloody fingerprints?