USA Today Bestseller "A big thriller with an even bigger heart!" - Lisa Gardner New York Times
bestselling author "Equal parts compelling mystery and riveting family drama...I'd follow its
hero Deputy Ben Packard anywhere." - Jess Lourey Edgar-nominated author of The Taken Ones
It's time to put the past to rest... Ben Packard was just a boy when his older brother
disappeared. Ben watched him walk out the back door of their grandparents' house and into the
cold night. His brother was never seen again. Decades later Deputy Packard finds himself with
too much time on his hands. A shooting has him on leave and under investigation and all he can
do is dwell on the past. For the first time in years new information about his brother has
surfaced that may lead them to the location of a body. The midwinter ground is frozen solid.
Worse Packard is cut off from department resources. As he strikes out to finally uncover the
truth behind his brother's disappearance he stumbles on a separate suspicious death. A
tenuous connection exists between the two cases and as Packard starts to dig he meets fierce
resistance from friends and foes alike who want him to stand down. The winter is long and cold.
By the end of it Packard will risk everything to catch a killer and reveal the shocking truth
about his brother.
