A Kirkus Recommended Read!
Just a woman, her dog, and a serial killer...
After barely surviving a vicious attack by a sadistic serial killer, FBI Profiler Kayleen Archer runs back home again, to the North Carolina mountain town where she grew up, and the one place where she thought she'd never return.
With nothing and no one left to help her heal, she retreats to a gray world of depression and fear, with only her beloved hound and a bottomless bottle of vodka to keep the lonely nights at bay.
But when a young girl is abducted from a local beauty pageant, Kayleen is asked to help by the local Sheriff, Caleb Stone; her first love, and the one man she had hoped to never face again.
All too quickly, she finds herself drawn right back, into the heart of darkness again.