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 fiancee) 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
lookingfor closure too. The kind that only Annie's death
can bring.