Everyone has a plan, until life crashes in Raleigh Harmon earned a brazen reputation during her years with the FBI. Now, having parted ways with the Bureau, she hopes to rebuild some of those broken relationships--including a new romance with alpha-male agent Jack Stephanson. That's the plan ... But when a dead body literally crosses her path in the mountains of Washington state, Raleigh's forced to choose between her personal life and her forensic skills to track a killer--a killer unlike any she's ever encountered, and a murder with clues that don't add up. When she realizes the killer will strike again, Raleigh knows the only way to stop another murder is to put herself at the top of the killer's list. With innocent lives on the line, and the FBI watching her every move, can Raleigh save another innocent girl from a gruesome end--or will she only wind up with more regrets, and literal dead ends? Praise for the Raleigh Harmon series: "Giorello has won the Christy Award and has received two Pulitzer Prize nominations. When you read this book, you'll see why." --Booklist, Starred Review "Read her for her wonderfully descriptive prose, her killer plots or her well-drawn characters, but read her. You'll come away enriched in deep and plentiful ways."--The Richmond Times-Dispatch

Author Biography

Sibella Giorello writes the award-winning and bestselling mystery series starring forensic geologist Raleigh Harmon. The first book in the series, "The Stones Cry Out," won a Christy Award for excellence. Since then, more Raleigh Harmon mysteries have followed, including a bestselling YA series in which the 15-year-old student geologist uses mineralogy to solve crimes in her hometown of Richmond, Virginia. A former newspaper reporter, Sibella's journalism was twice nominated for the Pulitzer Prize. Find out more by visiting her website, www.sibellawrites.com.