In mid-twenty-first-century New York, Eve Dallas's ‘tough cop’ exterior is shaken by her twisted former foster mother's demands for money in exchange for protecting secrets from Dallas's childhood – a situation that becomes more complicated when the woman is found murdered.

Cold rimmed her belly, frosted its way up to her throat. She couldn't breathe through the ice of it. Fear scratched at her throat. ‘How did you find me?’ Nothing shocks Eve Dallas. As New York's most prominent and headstrong homicide Lieutenant, she's seen everything. But when someone from her past shows up – someone sickly sweet and viciously cruel – Eve panics.

Foster carer Trudy Lombard spent years traumatising the young and the vulnerable. To the tough, aggressive Eve, these memories cut deep. So when Trudy is found lying dead in a pool of her own blood days after their meeting, Eve feels nothing. But the cop inside her vows to find the killer. And all the while her memories torment her. . .

Author Biography

JD Robb is the pseudonym for Nora Roberts, the number-one New York Times bestselling author of more than 200 novels, including the futuristic suspense In Death series. There are more than 500 million copies of her books in print.