``Small town Colorado police Detective Gemma Monroe is a human and fallible heroine I can\'t wait to meet again, and Littlejohn\'s prose is lyrical and gripping.``--Deborah Crombie In Emily Littlejohn\'s follow-up to her acclaimed debut Inherit the Bones , a twisted killer stalks his prey in the dead of winter.
On a cold dark night in February, as a blizzard shrieks through Cedar Valley, police officer and new mother Gemma Monroe responds to an anonymous report of a pro. ``Small town Colorado police Detective Gemma Monroe is a human and fallible heroine I can\'t wait to meet again, and Littlejohn\'s prose is lyrical and gripping.``--Deborah Crombie In Emily Littlejohn\'s follow-up to her acclaimed debut Inherit the Bones , a twisted killer stalks his prey in the dead of winter