Two years ago, a major FBI undercover drug deal suddenly
went south - and special agent Dylan Shields went down in a
hail of bullets. When the dust cleared, his fellow agent
(and fiance) Anne Marie McCall was left alone with too many
unanswered questions and nothing to do but hit the job as
hard as she could to dull the pain. Only now is she
beginning to ease up on her punishing routine as a Bureau
profiler and starting to let some light in again. And,
Detective Evan Crosby had a lot to do with drawing Annie
back into life, and she's not about to let her chance at
happiness with him slip away.
But before she can embrace a bright new future, she must
grapple with the dangerous past whose demons of doubt and
suspicion won't let her sleep at night... and whose dead
will never rest in peace until someone digs up the truth and
deals out the payback. That means going places where no one
- including the FBI - wants Annie to be and cutting through
a minefield of smoke and mirrors, politics and intimidation,
dirty tricks and deadly threats, in order to make a cold
case hot enough to get the right people sweating. The harder
Annie squeezes, the more blood, lies, and betrayal she
wrings out... and the closer she comes to connecting a
face to the trigger finger that blew away her dreams - and
Dylan Shields. What she doesn't know is that the killer
she's closing in on is looking for closure too. The kind
that only Annie's death can bring.