Sandra Ruttan Knihy

The unexplained disappearance of her mother left her an orphan so Kendall Moreau became a police officer and pursued a posting in the town where her mother went missing. She is on her way to her first posting when she gets reassigned to a task force in Maple River, hundreds of miles from where her mother vanished.Moreau doesn't want to be in Maple River. Most of her team doesn't want her there, either. She's partnered with Nate Duncan, whose role on the task force raises suspicions amongst the team because of his family's criminal connections, adding to Moreau's sense of isolation.They are assigned to investigate the death of Sammy Petersen but Duncan's personal connection to the family and suspects threatens to compromise the investigation.When a routine break-and-enter call produces a second body, Moreau suspects a connection to Sammy's death. After someone breaks into her cabin and assaults her, Moreau is forced to decide who to trust. Although she's still waiting to solve her own family mystery, Moreau is determined to give Sammy Petersen's family the answers she never received. Can she solve the case before another teenager dies and another family is destroyed?

Did Hart, Tain, and Nolan get the right killer on their first case together? They thought so at the time, but now, almost 2 years later, the details of a girl's recent murder match those from that old case. Now the past haunts them as they work to find a murderer before it's too late.

When a young boy is found murdered, the boy's brother accuses their older sister of murder, but the girl is nowhere to be found. Constables Hart and Tain find evidence that the girl is innocent--and is actually a victim herself. Now they must find her before she--and the rest of her family--is killed.

Three cops are forced to team up once again when the brutal case that almost destroyed them one year ago is reopened after a shocking connection to the current cases they are each working on is revealed.