JERY TILLOTSON

"Hypnotic! Terrifying! Feverish sex! Will surely become one of the most talked-about suspense novels of the year!"

When Trisha Foster marries handsome, mysterious Sam Donovan, she's thrilled when he takes her to his isolated mountain chalet to meet his family. But within a week, she realizes she has become a prisoner of a terrifying world of kinky sex, torture and murder ruled by the brutal but charismatic psychopath, Billy Mulligan, an escapee from prison. He and his grotesque family use Trisha as bait to attract her powerful, newspaper publisher mother, Abigal Foster, who helped put Billy Mulligan behind bars. Little do they realize that hell hath no fury like an avenging mother. Especially one like Abigal Foster. And soon, Hell Mountain lives up to its name in bloody ending that will rank as the most violent in contemporary literature!
Andrea D'Allsandra: "I've always been a nut about gothic romances. I devoured them by the hundreds back in the 70s. But none of them were ever filled with the action and sensuality that I thought they should have. So--I wrote The Master of Hell Mountain. I wrote it primarily for enjoyment, for the creation of eccentric characters but also for speed. I kept wanting the story to move as fast as an old-fashioned Warner Brothers movie from the '30s. Those great entertainments were edited to race along at break-neck speed. This is how I conceived Master of Hell Mountain. I also wanted two powerful women as my heroines. That's one thing I've always loathed about romantic suspense fiction is that the heroines always do stupid, girly things. The male protagonist is usually a lumbering, macho bore. So, from reader feedback, my characters in this book appear to have jolted and excited readers. In my work, you never expect the ordinary or the conventional. I want my figures to be bigger-than-life, to dress in luxurious clothes, to drink and smoke like they used to do in old 40s movies from MGM and Paramount studios."