Imagine the man you killed twelve years ago has now returned, in the gripping new thriller from the internationally bestselling author of The Second Stranger.
She left him to die. Now, he's back from the ashes.
Twelve years ago, firefighter Jade Bowyer watched a man burn. Curtis Hoole was a criminal—a killer—and although Jade didn't start the fire, she let it finish him.
Now Jade has built a new life as a wildfire lookout in British Columbia, thousands of miles from the memories that haunt her. She has finally escaped her past.
Until a plane crashes in the forest. As fire rages and a bear circles the dead, one survivor clings to life in the wreckage: Curtis Hoole.
Jade's orders are simple: guard the wreck and protect the bodies. Until she knows the truth, she must keep him alive
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