In a riveting debut thriller that has drawn comparisons to masters of the genre like Dennis Lehane and Michael Connelly Brian Freeman weaves obsession sex and revenge into a story that grips the reader with vivid characters and shocking plot twists from the first page to the last. Lieutenant Jonathan Stride is suffering from an ugly case of déjà vu. For the second time in a year a beautiful teenage girl has disappeared off the streets of Duluth Minnesota—gone without a trace like a bitter gust off Lake Superior. The two victims couldn’t be more different. First it was Kerry McGrath bubbly sweet sixteen. And now Rachel Deese strange sexually charged a wild child. The media hounds Stride to catch a serial killer and as the search carries him from the icy stillness of the northern woods to the erotic heat of Las Vegas he must decide which facts are real and which are illusions. And Stride finds his own life changed forever by the secrets he uncovers. Secrets that stretch across time in a web of lies death and illicit desire. Secrets that are chillingly…immoral.
