When English writer Sandy Fawkes met a tall, handsome American in a hotel bar in Atlanta, Georgia, she could never have dreamed what lay in store. The man, charming and enigmatic, told her he was completing a 20,000-mile journey across America. As he was going her way, Sandy accepted his invitation of a lift. They quickly became lovers.

What Paul John Knowles failed to tell her was that he had left a trail of bloody murder along his route, a trail which had yet to end...

In Love With a Serial Killer is the astonishing true story of one woman and an 18-time killer – how he charmed her and how she nearly became his 19th victim.

Knowles killed the day he met Sandy; and he killed again after she left him. This is an intimate account of one of the most gruesome and terrible serial killers in history, told by the woman who survived his fearsome attentions.