In this Wall Street Journal bestseller, a pair of ritual murders
could expose Mercy Kilpatrick to something terrifying: her own past...
Raised off the grid by survivalists, Mercy Kilpatrick believed in no
greater safeguard than the backwoods of Oregon. Unforgiven by her father
for abandoning the fold for the FBI, Mercy still holds to her past
convictions. They're in her blood. They're her secrets--as guarded as
her private survival retreat hidden away in the foothills.
In a cabin near her hideaway, Mercy encounters a young girl whose
grandmother is dying from multiple knife wounds. Hundreds of miles away,
a body is discovered slashed to death in a similar way. The victims--a
city judge and an old woman living in the woods--couldn't be more
different. With the help of police chief Truman Daly, Mercy must find
the killer before the body count rises. Mercy knows that the past has an
edge on her. So does her family. How can she keep her secrets now...when
they're the only things that can save her?