Her first novel， Topping from Below， was a cause celebre of erotic fiction. Now， in Panic Snap， Laura Reese once again crosses the boundary between pleasure and pain with a story of extreme sexual obsession and one family s terrible secret.The accused murderess in a sensational trial， Carly Tyler waits outside a California courtroom as a jury decides her fate: Is she the depraved Madame de Sade of the newspaper headlines or the innocent victim of one wealthy family s gothic past? Left for dead by the side of a road fifteen years earlier， she emerged from a coma with no memory and a face completely altered by the plastic surgery need to repair her injuries. Who is she and what happened to her? The trail leads her to a magnificent vineyard and its mysterious owner， James McGuane， a man of wealth and immense sexual charisma who holds the key to her past. But to unlock it， she must risk her life on a terrifying erotic journey that tears apart a dynasty and reveals the truth about an appalling murder.