Prosecutors make enemies. Bad guys just don't like getting caught and that's the simple truth. Another truth is that prosecutors make mistakes and when they do the consequences are anything but simple. Faith Barclay needs a break from her all consuming job as prosecutor and most specially to recover after a couple of tragic outcomes. As a defender of justice she learns that the system doesn't always work and she is left with guilt and a strong sense of responsibility toward those the system failed. She is a strong gutsy woman who decides to spend time at the family cabin, in the mountains, for some much needed rest and relaxation.

There is a lot of history waiting for her there and she has to decide whether to take a chance on leaving herself vulnerable. Zach McCallum has also returned to Thunder Creek but he's there to stay, hell bent on proving that he's not the rough and tough kid that ran away from trouble all those years ago. Faith and Zach have history too and neither has forgotten it. Question is whether or not it's worth reinvigorating a very short relationship that seemed doomed from the start. But the largest challenge will be to stay alive. Someone has a bone to pick with Faith and has tracked her to Thunder Creek. Through a series of harassments, some benign and others violent, someone from one of her cases is out to settle the score, but before exacting revenge the plan is to make her suffer by targeting her friends.

THUNDER AT DAWN is fast reading and at times frightening story about keeping one step ahead of a revengeful lunatic when there are no rules. No one is safe. That is what really keeps the reader at the edge of the seat -- no one is safe. The secondary theme is that people make mistakes and there are repercussions. No matter the mistake, people have to make choices of how to dust themselves off and start over again. Jill Gregory makes her characters likeable or hateful but believable avoiding superhuman tricks. That's what makes this story enjoyable and so engrossing you won't be able to put it down. Gregory takes you through quite a few twists and turns and surprises until you get to the root of the crimes. Nothing is what it appears to be.