Both her old retired army buddy Gordon Skinner and Sheriff Jake Ballard believe she can catch a vicious killer. And a bizarre murder is only the first jarring reminder of how high the stakes really are. Worse yet, with SCU resources stretched thinner than ever before, Riley is alone and without backup, feeling her way through a deadly game of blindman's buff, where no one around her is quite who or what they seem. Now she's awoken to discover that she's got a sexy new man in her life and an unreliable memory, and that the clairvoyant abilities she's always depended on to protect her are MIA. The SCU's expert on the occult, she'd been sent to the beachfront cottage on Opal Island by her enigmatic chief, Noah Bishop, to investigate reports of dangerous occult activity. An ex-army officer, now a federal agent assigned to the Special Crimes Unit, Riley was a chameleon-a clairvoyant who could blend in with her surroundings, be anyone or anything she chose to be. In fact, she barely remembered the previous three weeks. Even more frightening, she didn't remember what happened the night before. Riley Crane woke up fully dressed, a gun under her pillow, and covered in blood. In this terrifying novel, a psychic special agent finds herself caught up in a tangled web of secrets, lies. Regardless of their appetite for the paranormal, readers will be mesmerized by a plot that moves quickly to a chilling conclusion.Bestselling author Kay Hooper returns with a relentless thriller that brings her readers face-to-face with fear itself. Hooper keeps the suspense dialed up as Riley experiences brief flashes of memory, visions of satanic rites and continued blackouts.

Vulnerable and unable to trust herself or those around her, Riley perseveres in an investigation that could prove deadly. Despite her haziness on the investigation's details to date-including her apparent romantic involvement with Sheriff Jake Ballard-she persuades her boss, Noah Bishop, chief of the FBI Special Crimes Unit, to let her stay to 'stabilize' the situation, which just got bloodier with another brutal murder.

), Riley is on assignment on Opal Island off the coast of South Carolina, summoned there by her ex-army friend, Gordon Skinner, to investigate possible occult activity. In this third fast-paced installation of Hooper's Fear trilogy (after Chill of Fear

Psychic FBI agent Riley Crane wakes up one afternoon covered in blood (not her own), with a pounding headache and no memory of the last three weeks-or her clairvoyant sense.

Sleeping with fear by kay hooper