‘I HAD REASON TO BELIEVE BEING HEARTLESS HAD GROWN HIGHLY-CONTAGIOUS. BECAUSE IT HAD SPREAD THROUGH THESE PEOPLE LIKE A BUSHFIRE. MADE OF CANCER. THERE WAS BARELY A SOUL BETWEEN THEM.’ Harriet Hale falls from her balcony, surviving just long enough to give Detective Casey Colton a cryptic message. A message worth dying for? Or maybe one worth killing for? The deeper Casey digs into the seventeen-year-old’s life, the darker her story gets. One filled with strange secrets and stranger people with a nasty habit of turning up missing or dead. As the case grows ever murkier, and the bodies pile up around him, Casey learns that those who spend too much time in the dark may never see the light again.