What Detective Brady St. John really needs is a soothing vacation. Unfortunately, just as the sun can be setting on his second trip to a friend’s cabin on Lake Henley, he hears a scream and races to rescue a female from her would-be killer. When the killer escapes and then return to surface finish the job, Brady vows to make use of all of his many assets to maintain her safe-and capture those who would observe her dead.

Economic crimes investigator Emily Chastain doesn’t trust many people. And although she let the detective who kept her existence in on the few pertinent facts about why she had been attacked, there are some things you merely don’t share with a stranger. Small does she believe that the trick she actually is keeping just might have them both killed.

Bestselling and award-winning writer Lynette Eason transmits readers on a race for the truth within this heart-stopping tale of risk, regret, and redemption.