Artist Carrie Rayborn becomes involved in the murder investigation of Oakland detectives Carlos Cruz and Jay Goldstein after her teenage daughter, Tricia, is arrested for the killing of an unpleasant, much disliked molester and cult member, Clifford Hawki

They’d kill to keep a woman out of the White House. Congresswoman Jean Talbot’s bid for the presidency is catching fire—and making enemies... We are G#ds Messengers. Pay attention before it is too late. It is unnatural for women to dress like Men. It is wrong when women take away Mens jobs. It is a sin against G#d for a woman to run this Great Nation which was begat by Mens minds and kept alive with the Muscle Sweat and Blood of Men. The men who let these things happen must now pay the price. The men who work for Jean Talbot must stop or they will pay with their blood. We are G#ds Soldiers. This is your last warning. The Wrath of G#d and Man will befall those who upset Natures Ordered Plan. —The Brotherhood of Men

A truth more terrifying than nightmare. Linda Orett has tried desperately to erase her past. But a new home, new friends, and even a new name are not enough. For Linda, the abyss of memory is too deep—and impossible to cross. And now a radio bulletin has pierced the fragile bubble of her new existence. In her former hometown, a child has been found dead, murdered under the same circumstances as her daughter three years before . . . a case in which the police had only one Linda. Tried for the murder of her own child, Linda was ultimately freed on a legal technicality, and she and her husband, Matt, fled to a small coastal town in the hope of rebuilding their shattered lives. But the wounds have been reopened, the blood of memory flows once again, and the most chilling images and events from Linda’s past flicker and flood into view. She plunges into the dark and dangerous world of self-doubt, a world where anything is possible and where no one can be trusted—not the police, not her husband . . . and not even herself. Praise for A Single Stone “Riveting and original.” — Cosmopolitan “Breathlessly mounting suspense.” — Kirkus Reviews