Detective Peter Decker and Rina Lazarus return to Los Angeles when a kidnapping hits close to
home-in this breathtaking new thriller from New York Times bestselling author Faye Kellerman.
Peter and his partner Detective Tyler McAdams are thrown into an unsolved case and propelled
into action when a body is found in the very woods where a man previously went missing in
upstate New York. But that's not the only crisis that Peter has to deal with. Teresa McLaughlin
the biological mother of Peter and his wife Rina's foster son Gabe has fled to Los Angeles
with her two children in tow hoping to avoid a court injunction amid a messy divorce. But LA
is no escape from her problems-she is found by ruthless men and beaten mercilessly. When she
wakes barely conscious Teresa discovers that both of her children are gone and frantically
calls Gabe for help. With his mother on the verge of death Gabe contacts Peter and Rina as
well as his biological father the notorious Christopher Donatti a former hit man from a known
criminal family who's now a millionaire in Nevada. By bringing Donatti into the fray Gabe
Peter and Rina know they have made a deal with the devil-but they may not be able to recover
the kids without him. As these unlikely allies rally to find the kidnappers before things end
tragically they race headlong toward an explosive confrontation from which no one will emerge
unscathed...
