NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERCochise County Sheriff Joanna Brady's professional and personal lives
collide when her college-age daughter is involved in a missing persons case in this evocative
and atmospheric mystery in J. A. Jance's New York Times bestselling suspense series set in the
beautiful desert country of the American Southwest.When Jennifer Brady returns to Northern
Arizona University for her sophomore year she quickly becomes a big sister to her new roommate
Beth Rankin a brilliant yet sheltered sixteen-year-old freshman. For a homeschooled Beth
college is her first taste of both freedom and unfettered access to the internet and Jenny is
concerned that she's too naïve and rebellious for her own good.Her worries are well-founded
because one day Beth vanishes prompting Jenny to alert campus authorities local police and
her mom Sheriff Joanna Brady-who calls in a favor. Beth is found but Jenny's concern has
unwittingly put her in thecrosshairs of a criminal bent on revenge.With Christmas vacation
approaching and Beth at war with her parents Jenny invites Beth to the shelter of the Brady
home. While Joanna is sympathetic she's caught up in a sensitive case-an officer-involved
shooting that has placed the lives of two young children in jeopardy-leaving her stretched thin
to help a fragile young woman recently gone missing and endangered.
