In Through the Evil Days, New York Times bestselling author Julia Spencer-
Fleming raises the stakes for Russ and Clare, putting their new marriage, their
unborn child, a missing teen, and their very own lives on the line. On a frigid
January night, Chief of Police Russ Van Alstyne and Reverend Clare Fergusson
are called to the scene of a raging fire. The extent of the tragedy isn't known
until the next day, when the charred remains of a man and woman are
recovered—along with evidence showing they were shot execution style. The
last thing Russ needs are two potential homicides. He's struggling with the
prospect of impending fatherhood, and his new wife is not at all happy with his
proposal for their long-delayed honeymoon: a week ice-fishing at a remote
Adirondack lake. St. Alban's Church is still in turmoil over the Reverend Clare
Fergusson's news that she's five and a half months pregnant—but only two
and a half months married. Worried her post-deployment drinking and drug use
may have damaged the baby, she awaits the outcome of the bishop's
investigation into her "unpriestly" behavior: a scolding, censure, or permanent
suspension. Officer Hadley Knox is having a miserable January as well. Her on-
again, off-again lover, Kevin Flynn, has seven days to weigh an offer from the
Syracuse Police Department that might take him half a state away. And her ex-
husband's in town—threatening to take custody of their kids unless Hadley
pays him off with money she doesn't have. When Hadley discovers that the
dead couple fostered an eight-year-old girl who was a recent liver donee, the
search for the killer takes on a new and terrible urgency. With no access to
immunosuppressant drugs, transplant rejection will kill the girl in a matter of
days. As a deadly ice storm downs power lines and immobilizes roads, Russ and
Clare search desperately for the truth about the missing child, but the hunters
will become the hunted when they are trapped in the cabin beside the frozen
lake and stalked through the snowbound woods by a killer.
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