La vida de Jane MacGuire parece cambiar para siempre en un segundo cuando, en un secuestro aparentemente azaroso, su novio pierde la vida. Jane, que ha quedado semiinconsciente, escucha una frase inquietante: ""No la mateis, no nos sirve muerta"". De pronto, comienza a sospechar que ella era el verdadero objetivo del ataque. ¿Por que la buscan? ¿Que quieren de ella? A partir de ese momento Jane se ve envuelta en una terrible carrera contra el tiempo y ni siquiera su padre adoptivo, Joe Quinn, de la policia de Atlanta, podra ayudarla. Finalmente, se ve obligada a recurrir a Mark Trevor, un atractivo estafador con quien Jane tuvo un breve romance en el pasado. Mark esta alli, dispuesto a cooperar quien sabe por que oscuras razones- y ambos emprenden una travesia hacia Napoles, perseguidos por un asesino obsesionado por un misterio de dos mil años de antigüedad que puede conmocionar al mundo entero. / When it reaches zero, you die. #1 New York Times bestselling author Iris Johansen sets her readers pulses racing once again in this relentless psychological thriller of a young woman caught in a maze of secrets and stalked by a merciless killer. The countdown begins the moment you open this riveting novel that only grows more electrifying as the pages turn, more exciting as time runs out. Dont kill her. Shes no good to us dead. These words haunt Jane MacGuire after a shocking attack shatters her world in an instant. Was it a random kidnapping attemptor the countdown to something far more sinister? Who is after herand what do they want so badly theyll kill anyone in their way? Thats what Jane is determined to find out, without the help of the police, the FBI, or her adoptive parents, forensic sculptor Eve Duncan and her husband, Joe Quinn, of the Atlanta PDbecause whoever is after her wont hesitate to hurt those she loves the most. Now Jane will go on the run with the only man who may be more dangerous than those who are pursuing her. A smuggler, a con man, and who knew what else, Mark Trevor had his own mysterious reasons for wanting to keep Jane safe and out of the hands of a killer obsessed with a two-thousand-year-old mystery that could rock the modern-day world. Orphaned at an early age, Jane grew up the hard way, but she was given a new life, a loving family, and a chance to pursue her interest in one of the greatest archaeological finds ever unearthed. Now someone was trying to destroy that new life before it could even get started. The past is returning with the kind of vengeance that knows no mercy. The countdown has already begun, and its approaching zero faster than anyone thinks.