Detective-turned-P.I., Dodge Hanley, the tough customer in Sandra Brown's new thriller, is blindsided by a call from the woman he's never forgotten telling him that the daughter he's never met is in trouble. Caroline introduces Dodge to Berry as an old friend who's offered to help prove to the cops it wasn't she who shot her ex-lover but Oren Starks, a co-worker whom Berry accused of stalking. Dodge believes her...and so does Deputy Ski Nyland considering how hard he's working to find Starks - who, Berry insists, is depraved. But nut jobs don't play by the rules. Dodge is convinced Starks is obsessed with having Berry...or killing her, and neither option is acceptable to a man who's determined to get back the family he's lost.