Big-city cop Leigh Ann Warren is coming back to Sunrise, North Carolina, to escape the pressures of the job—and her guilt over nearly causing the death of her partner Duck. But things have changed here since she was a girl. Tensions over plans to develop hallowed ground for commercial purposes are tearing a once close-knit community to pieces. Leigh Ann hoped to stay neutral, but a decades-old murder, newly unearthed, is dragging her down into a whirlpool of fear and small-town secrets. And a killer still lurking in the shadows of Sunrise is about to strike again—this time, too close to home.

Out on disability leave, Washington, D.C., policewoman Leigh Ann Warren can't stay off the job and out of the game—not when her partner and former fiancé Dillon Upshur "Duck" Kennedy has vanished mysteriously and determined and dangerous people on both sides of the law are hunting him down. And the dead body she discovers in her own apartment only strengthens Leigh Ann's resolve to find Duck first. But the trail is twisted with perilous, unexpected turns, leading her deep into the woods of western Maryland—and to the lair of a killer who'd just as soon leave behind two dead cops rather than one.

A mysterious telephone threat sends former Washington, D.C., police officer Leigh Ann Warren back to her small African-American coastal hometown, where she must uncover the dark secrets of the past and unearth the mystery of her own family and her parents' deaths to save the life of her foster mother. Original.

Former D.C. cop Leigh Ann Warren is starting a new job and looking forward to a blissful wedded life. But someone is not willing to let her escape so easily—a lethal adversary with a grudge who's determined to make Leigh Ann pay ... and keep paying. What begins as a series of petty harassments quickly escalates into more serious crimes, as a stranger driven by hate and unburdened by conscience steals Leigh Ann's identity to threaten her extended family. And when her invisible enemy graduates to murder, Leigh Ann realizes that there's only one way to take back her life and stop the She must beat a killer at her own twisted game.