Then a decades-old cold case washes ashore, pulling her into an investigation she recognizes as deeply personal.Īngie’s lover and partner, James Maddocks, sees it, too. Benched on a desk assignment for twelve months, Angie struggles to maintain her sense of identity-if she’s not a detective, who is she? How can she fight for the truth when it turns out her whole life is a lie?ĭetective Angie Pallorino took down a serial killer permanently and, according to her superiors, with excessive force. And Angie’s forays into the mind of a monster shake loose some unsettling secrets about her own past. But as their search for the killer intensifies, so does their mutual desire. Together, Angie and Maddocks agree to put that night behind them. But her private life collides with her professional ambitions when she’s introduced to her temporary partner, James Maddocks-a man she’d met just the night before in an intense, anonymous encounter.
Assigned to the joint investigative task force, Angie is more than ready to prove that she has what it takes to break into the all-male homicide division.
Then the body of a drowned young woman, also bearing the marks of the serial rapist, floats up in the Gorge, and the hunt for a predator becomes a hunt for a killer. When a comatose Jane Doe is found in a local cemetery, sexually assaulted, mutilated, and nearly drowned, Angie is struck by the eerie similarities to her earlier unsolved rapes. Then he disappeared.īut Detective Angie Pallorino hasn’t forgotten the violent rapist who left a distinctive calling card-crosses etched into the flesh of his victims’ foreheads.
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