Mira — Daoma Winston

Mira is one of Washington, D.C.'s young wives: she is attractive, respectable, and slightly bored. In this superbly crafted novel of psychological suspense, she meets a mesmerizing young drifter in a bar, and an insidious evil takes hold of her life, as her obsession with this seductive man draws her into a forbidden world of increasingly grave games of transgression and crime. Before long, this proper, and properly willing young wife is transformed into a desperate woman lying in wait for her young male prey. With a climax that is as original and chilling as any in contemporary fiction, Mira is a convincing work of psychological tension and terror.