The Boston Police are having a hard time trying to outwit a mastermind with serious issues.

This serial killer likes to think he's playing with the lives - or deaths - of people he believes are bad contestants in this game we call life.

They call him the Game Host. Because the only clue he leaves behind at each murder scene is a game piece.

Detectives Regina Armani and Jo Columbo have a lot to prove to themselves and others on their first major case. They're determined to find and stop this madman before he makes his next move of death.

In the end, who will win or lose in this life-or-death battle before the final game is over?

Author Bio: Joy Mastroianni lives in Springfield, Massachusetts, home of the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame. This is her fifth book.