"Who would believe that Mara Castillo's sister--missing and presumed dead--suddenly sent a one-word text? Now Mara wants answers, even if it means stepping into a killer's sights with her brother's best friend, rancher Levi Duke, as her only protection. But with someone who has everything to lose after her, uncovering a long-buried secret could save her life ... or claim it." -- Page [4] cover.

When a pair of lovers are declared the victims of a coyote attack on a remote stretch of the Appalachian Trail, Mike Bowditch clashes with his biologist girlfriend, who believes that the victims were murdered.

Gabriel Thane is the sheriff and lifetime resident of Carin County Illinois, committed to upholding the law and keeping the residents safe. Lieutenant Evie Blackwell is a State Police Detective skilled at investigations. She launches a new task force to reexamine unsolved crimes across the state. She begins work with the sheriff’s department on a few of its most troubling missing-persons cases, a deputy, his wife and eleven-year old son’s disappearance,...