Suppose you had an evil double, an inhuman twin who could act on all your most perverse, secret desires. Something strange and unnatural is happening in a once-peaceful community in California. A serial killer is preying on young women, and all clues point to the town's seemingly ineffectual mayor. A former starlet is blackmailed with X-rated photos of a sexual spree she cannot remember. A scrupulously honest prosecutor appears to be making deals with gangsters. A powerful senator is murdered in broad daylight. All through San Paradiso, in fact, the worst fantasies of ordinary people are becoming alarmingly—and terrifyingly—real. And at the center of it all is Laura Bennett, a young reporter for the San Paradiso Herald, who senses, despite all logic and common sense, that not only is there a hellish conspiracy behind all these bizarre and menacing events, but that she herself may be the source of a demonic evil beyond all mortal comprehension—or else its ultimate victim. (From book's inner-cover.)

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