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Oregon’s Deschutes River. For years Liz and Owen have admired their neighbors, Carole and David, who seem to have it all: security, happiness, and a beautiful son, Charlie. Then Charlie vanishes without a trace. In a heartrending accident, Liz has changed the lives of everyone she loves-- and is concealing it. As two marriages buckle in grief and fear, Liz retreats into guilt and paranoia... and another neighbor has his own secrets, his own pain,...

When her grandfather suffers a suspicious, fatal heart attack at her wedding, Violet can barely conceal her joy. For herself, and for the sake of other victims like her, Violet is reclaiming the power stolen from her as a child. Predator by predator, she’s coming for them. It’s intoxicating. It’s liberating. But the secrets she now keeps, and the lies she must tell, come with a price.

Footprints were scattered about like fallen leaves. She looked down into the ravine, and once more her lungs filled with fear. A body, blackened and motionless lay splayed out in the bushes. After escaping the horrors of her old life, Detective Megan Carpenter vowed never to let anyone hurt her or those she loves ever again. Joining the small police force in Jefferson County's Port Townsend, she is determined to get every victim of a crime the justice...

"When she arrives at the home of a woman whose body has been brutalized, Detective Megan Carpenter is shocked to discover that she knows the victim. Monique Delmont helped Megan when she was in danger years ago. And the killer has left a disturbing calling card: two laminated photographs of a sixteen-year-old high school girl. Megan. With the help of her new partner, Deputy Ronnie Marsh, Megan finds links to three female murder cases from nearly twenty...