Harrowing loss, psychological trauma, and a deadly mystery test the
human will to survive in this electrifying novel from award-winning
author Brian Freeman.
Lisa Power is a tortured ghost of her former self. The author of a
bestselling thriller called Thief River Falls, named after her rural
Minnesota hometown, Lisa is secluded in her remote house as she
struggles with the loss of her entire family: a series of tragedies she
calls the "Dark Star."
Then a nameless runaway boy shows up at her door with a terrifying
story: he's just escaped death after witnessing a brutal murder--a crime
the police want to cover up. Obsessed with the boy's safety, Lisa
resolves to expose this crime, but powerful men in Thief River Falls are
desperate to get the boy back, and now they want her too.
Lisa and her young visitor have nowhere to go as the trap closes around
them. Still under the strange, unforgiving threat of the Dark Star, Lisa
must find a way to save them both, or they'll become the victims of
another shocking tragedy she can't foresee.