Four little girls-each blond, each on the verge of adolescence-stolen from their families.
Their bodies discovered months later in shallow graves, surrounded by trinkets they never owned, clutching a scrap of paper bearing a cryptic verse. As a forensic nurse in rural South Carolina, Ashlee Davenport Chadwick acts as both caregiver and cop, gathering evidence from anyone who arrives in the local E.R. as the result of a crime. It's a tough job, both physically and emotionally draining, but deeply satisfying.
Then a child's red shoe is discovered on Davenport property. The evidence leads Ashlee to the body of a missing girl and her work suddenly invades every aspect of her life. As an expert and a witness, she must call upon all her resources. And when the killer's eye turns to her, she becomes intimately involved with a crime that tests her mind and her spirit...and the price of failure will be another child's life.
- ISBN10 1283662299
- ISBN13 9781283662291
- Publish Date 1 January 2012 (first published 29 January 2008)
- Publish Status Active
- Out of Print 12 May 2015
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Harlequin Mira
- Format eBook
- Language English