He chose her for her competence. That was his error.

For three weeks, a man in a parked truck has written down Sarah Harrison's mornings. Gym at half past six. Home by a quarter past eight. Children at school before nine. Beneath his own house waits a concrete room with a chain in the floor, ready for the day he takes her.

He wants to study what happens to a capable mind once every choice belongs to someone else.

Sarah's father was an engineer who believed the world holds predators. He spent her childhood teaching her how locks open and why panic solves nothing.

The plan survives ninety seconds. Then she bites down hard enough to leave his blood on her kitchen floor. He believes he is the researcher.

What happens when the subject starts taking notes?

First Contact is a psychological thriller about a careful man who met a prepared woman. For anyone underestimated by someone certain he had done his homework!