From critically acclaimed master of suspense J. A. Jance, the New York
Times bestselling author of Fire and Ice, comes a nerve-shattering
tale of rage and retribution, and a nightmare even death cannot end.
Twenty years ago, a darkness rose up out of the blistering heat of the
Arizona desert and descended upon the Walker family of Tucson.
A personified evil, a serial killer named Andrew Carlisle, brought blood
and terror into the Walkers' world, nearly murdering Diana Ladd Walker
and her young son, Davy. Now much has changed. The family has grown
larger.
There's Lani, the beloved adopted daughter--a beautiful Native-American
teenager "kissed by the bees" and destined, according to Tohono
O'odham lore, to become a woman of great spiritual power. And now the
psychopath Carlisle has died in prison, so Brandon and Diana Walker
believe they and their loved ones are safe at last.
They are wrong.
The monster is dead, but his malevolence lives on . . . in another.