Darkness Lies In Wait is a character-driven, psychological thriller - the terrifying story of a woman pursued hy a man whose dark side has been unleashed by her accusation of rape. He believes, wilh some justification, that she consented. Her accusanon will destroy his life: he must kill her He will do that in an abandoned coal mine. where her body will never be found. She escapes into the bowels disintegrating, terrifying, pitch black mine.The police learn where they are, and it becomes a race to rescue her before he gets to her Herb Brown was inspired to write the novel by the facts ofa case argued befors he was a Justice on the Ohio Supreme Court.