This taut, fast-paced romantic thriller from Cassidy (Are You Afraid
? etc.) opens on doll maker Annalise Blakely desperately trying to keep her mother’s business afloat while her best friend, Danika, tries to hook her up with her sexy homicide cop neighbor, Tyler King. Annalise and Tyler do hit it off immediately, but their budding relationship is marred by a killer who strangles women and dresses them up to look like the dolls Annalise designs—making her a prime suspect. Annalise tries to keep her new relationship afloat while rekindling connections to estranged family. Meanwhile, the killer looms and threatens to make her his next doll. Annalise and Tyler have good chemistry, and their romance shines. The doll thing wears thin pretty fast, however, and the killer is a stereotypical nut. (Mar.)
