After years in a brutal marriage, Gailyn Campano knows how to accept violence and betrayal. But when she returns home to find an intruder holding her daughter hostage, a ferocious strength emerges within her battered soul – and before she knows it, a man lies dead on her floor. Now it’s up to Will Trent, an agent from the Georgia Bureau of Investigation, to pick up the pieces before they completely fall apart. Thus begins this shattering thriller from one of the genre’s undisputed masters, guaranteed to hold listeners in its twisted thrall.