Regan hears someone prowling about her loft and then gets locked out on the roof.  Jack rescues her, but must rush off to a gallery in Soho that has just been robbed.  Meanwhile, Regan’s best friend Kit calls Regan to pick her up in mid-town.  Kit has just been ditched by a co-worker, Georgiana, at a comedy club. She recently had foot surgery and cannot crutch her way back to the high floor in the hotel where she is staying. The two learn that Georgiana preys on blond, good-looking, young man, drugging them and then branding them. 

On the other side of town, up and coming actress Lorraine Lily is also desperately trying to get into Regan and Jack’s loft.  The loft used to belong Lily’s soon to be ex-husband and because his name was the only one on the deed, he sold it.  There are some letters in a safe, however, that Lily doesn’t want to be made public, lest they ruin her career.  All these characters are running around a pitch-black Manhattan, colliding with each other as their stories collide.  In an orchestrated chaos, all these stories interconnect and slowly, as the power is restored, each thread is untangled and everything falls in to place.  

Zapped is a quick, fun read that has great characters and almost comical scenes as Lily tries to walk from mid-town to Tribeca in four-inch heels and her accomplice steals his roommate’s girlfriend’s tap-shoes so Lily can walk more comfortably.  It is fun to watch as each story connects to another and to yet another, and in a city of millions, somehow it all makes sense and is believable.  Regan and Jack don’t get as much face time as long time fans might like, but Zapped is good fun; you’ll be sorry if you get caught reading it without a flashlight and a blackout occurs.               

--Jennifer Monahan Winberry