Verbum is a computer network that allows users to communicate intimately withoutever meeting or knowing each other's true identities,using on-screen nicknames to preserve their anonymity.But a new kind of predator is stalking the network,looking for more than an exchange of electronic intimacies.SNOWFLAKE will find out your secret fears and exploit them.If he has your Net address,he can find you out-no one is safe.But when he locks on to Kate Lavin,invades her privacy,he takes on an opponent worthy of his own dark brilliance.Ellis Hoile,Kate's ex-husband,is only one stop away from obsession himself.He will be tracking SNOWFLAKE to the end of the line.