"Under the surface of small town Texas are dark undercurrents of suffering and depravity: alcoholism, domestic violence, child abuse, arson, animal mutilations -- and brutal, obscene murder. Social worker Sally Hopkins knows that it's only a matter of time before the perpetrator becomes a sexual predator, a serial killer with a twisted mind. Sally's burnt out on Houston's big city crime, just shy of forty, and she doesn't want to be involved -- but no one else in her East Texas hometown of Maryvale has the training to follow the tell-tale clues left at each scene. And the handsome young state trooper who's also been called in to help is helping Sally. He revitalizes her, rekindles her long-buried passion for life -- and together they break through the walls of secrets and lies, to stop the killer before he strikes again"--Page 2 of cover.
- ISBN10 0765349450
- ISBN13 9780765349453
- Publish Date 29 August 2006 (first published 20 October 2005)
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 30 April 2014
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Tor Books
- Format Paperback (US Mass Market)
- Pages 294
- Language English