Melanie Vargas is a hardworking, hotshot federal prosecutor in New York City with a rising career in the law and a marriage that's on the rocks. Having caught her husband cheating, she's struggling to work things out, if only for her baby daughter's sake.

On an innocent evening stroll with her child, Melanie stumbles across a horrifying crime scene. A wealthy former prosecutor from her office has been tortured and murdered, his luxurious town house set ablaze to destroy evidence of the crime. It's the kind of high-profile case that can make her name, and Melanie wants in. Needs in. But what she doesn't realize is that this opportunity will bring her dangerously close to a hard-to-resist FBI agent who may have secrets of his own — and even closer to a dark, sadistic killer who seems to be one step ahead of her every inch of the way.

The story of a young prosecutor's wild race against the clock to solve a brutal high-society murder before the killer finds her, Most Wanted is the stunning, sexy, and spellbinding debut novel that has already garnered rave reviews from today's masters of suspense.

In this stunning, scary, and sexy debut thriller, a young prosecutor is in a wild race against the clock to solve a brutal Park Avenue murder before the killer comes after her.

Melanie Vargas is a hardworking, hotshot federal prosecutor who has a rising career in the law. Her home life is a bit chaotic, since she just caught her husband in an affair, but she’s trying to work things out, if only for her baby daughter. One evening she takes the child out on an innocent stroll and walks right into a crime scene where a wealthy former fellow prosecutor has been murdered.

Melanie knows that with her personal problems, she should stay away from a case as high profile as this one promises to be. Yet it’s a career-making case and she aggressively signs on, only to be led smack into a race for her life against a dark, sadistic killer who seems to be one step ahead of her every inch of the way.

Michele Martinez, a graduate of Harvard University and Stanford Law School, was a federal prosecutor in New York City for eight years. She lives in Manhattan with her husband and two children.