Forensic psychologist Sophia Channing nearly lost her life to a serial killer. Fortunately, her own quick thinking—and Division of Criminal Investigation agent Cam Prescott’s efforts—rescued her from a horrifying fate. Together, Sophia and Cam jailed the sadistic predator and closed the case on his reign of terror.

But when teenagers make a gruesome discovery in the Iowa woods, Sophia and Cam realize they’ve only scratched the surface of an evil that runs even deeper and deadlier than one madman’s twisted desires. And they don’t come more twisted than the killer known as the Zombie Lover: Vance’s mystery accomplice, who’s still at large and stacking up bodies. With the law snapping at his heels and private demons screaming in his head, the Zombie Lover is hell-bent on carrying out a desperate, double-edged mission. He’s determined to terminate Sophia, then target medical examiner Lucy Benally, who he’s vowed to make his own…dead or alive.

Revised edition: This edition of Touching Evil includes editorial revisions.

Kylie Brant is the author of thirty-five romantic suspense novels. A three-time RITA Award nominee, a four-time Romantic Times award finalist, a two-time Daphne du Maurier Award winner, and a 2008 Romantic Times Career Achievement Award winner (as well as a two-time nominee), Brant has written books that have been published in twenty-nine countries and eighteen languages. Her novel Undercover Bride is listed by Romantic Times magazine as one of the best romances in the last twenty-five years. She is a member of Romance Writers of America, its Kiss of Death Mystery and Suspense chapter; Novelists, Inc.; and International Thriller Writers. When asked how an elementary special education teacher and mother of five comes up with such twisted plots, her answer is always the same: “I have a dark side.”