When the first note shows up at the restaurant where he works -- when he isn't designing costumes for a local theater -- Jim Foster laughs it off. When the notes keep coming, he doesn't find the fact that he might have a secret admirer quite so amusing. Alan North, a lonely, bookish customer at the restaurant, is too shy to even think of talking to Jim -- as much as he wants to. Then the killings begin. Two of Jim's friends are murdered in what appear to be muggings. However, the detective in charge of the cases believes they're more than that, and that Jim is either the killer ... or being stalked by one. When Jim and Alan finally connect, can they help find and stop the stalker, or will Alan end up dead before their budding relationship can become more than friendship?

His Secret Admirer

Pulling out of the lot, Jim laughed. “I’m jumping at shadows, or more like I’m conceited enough to think I’m worthstalking. Yeah, someone’s leaving those notes, but it has to be a woman. That is sonot a man thing. At least not any man I’ve ever met.”


He’d known his fair share, mostly as friends and nothing more. The occasional one’s he’d hooked up with had not been the sort who would have written what seemed like…


Love notes is the best way to think of them, I guess, from someone who’s fixated on my smile, of all things. He leaned over quickly to check what his smile looked like in the rearview mirror. Just like anyone else’s, as far as I can tell.


“Yeah, the notes are not a man thing. Ergo, that guy is not the one writing them. It’s just coincidence we both were at the same place at the same time, and nothing more.” 3


Chapter 5