Audio Book Description:
In a stifling jail cell in a hardscrabble Georgia town, Detective Lena Adams sitsin stubborn silence: bruised, angry, and the only suspectin a horrific murder that left a woman incinerated beyond recognition. A hundred miles away, Police Chief JeffreyTolliver has gotten the callthat his young detective has been arrested. Jeffrey`s wife, pediatrician and medical examiner Sara Linton, has little patience for Lena or her dramas.Fighting a heartbreaking malpractice suit, struggling to pick up the pieces of a shattered career, the last thing Sara needs is to see Jeffrey playingLena`s Knight in shining armor.Sara cannot guess what within days she herself will beat the center of a bizarreand murderous case. For Lenahas fled back to the place where she grew up hard, careeningback through the shadows of her past and into a shocking underworld of bigotry andrage. The man who raised her isslowly killing himself with drugs. The man who beguiled-and beat-her is reaching out from prison. And now only Jeffreyand Sara can free Lena from theweb of lies, betrayal, and brutality that has trapped her-as this powerhouse novelraces toward its shattering climax...anda final, unforgettable twist.
