Rise the dark.
These were the last words written in Lauren Novak's notebook before she
was murdered in a strange Florida village. They've never meant anything
to the police or to her husband, investigator Markus Novak. Now the man
he believes killed her is out of prison, and draws Markus to the place
he's avoided for so long: the lonely road where his wife was shot to
death beneath the cypress trees and Spanish moss in a town called
Cassadaga.
In Red Lodge, Montana, a senseless act of vandalism shuts the lights
off in the town where Sabrina Baldwin is still trying to adjust to a new
home and mourning the loss of her brother, who was a high voltage
linesman just like her husband, Jay. As the spring's final snowstorm
calls Jay deeper into the mountains, chasing the destruction on the
electrical grid, Sabrina is abducted by Garland Webb, the man Markus
Novak believes killed his wife. Drawing them all together is a messianic
villain who understands that you can never outpace your past. You can
only rise against the future.