But Detective Angie Pallorino hasn’t forgotten the violent
rapist who left a distinctive calling card—crosses etched
into the flesh of his victims’ foreheads. When a comatose
Jane Doe is found in a local cemetery, sexually assaulted,
mutilated, and nearly drowned, Angie is struck by the eerie
similarities to her earlier unsolved rapes. Could he be back?
Then the body of a drowned young woman, also bearing the
marks of the serial rapist, floats up in the Gorge, and the
hunt for a predator becomes a hunt for a killer. Assigned to
the joint investigative task force, Angie is more than ready
to prove that she has what it takes to break into the
all-male homicide division. But her private life collides
with her professional ambitions when she’s introduced to her
temporary partner, James Maddocks—a man she’d met just the
night before in an intense, anonymous encounter.
Together, Angie and Maddocks agree to put that night behind
them. But as their search for the killer intensifies, so
does their mutual desire. And Angie’s forays into the mind
of a monster shake loose some unsettling secrets about her
own past. How can she fight for the truth when it turns out
her whole life is a lie?
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