'Stay in the world, Aud . . . Stay alive inside. Promise me.'
Raw with grief, Aud Torvingen has retreated from her life in Atlanta to rebuild a remote cabin in the middle of Appalachia. Her solitude is broken when an old friend asks for her help tracking down his missing fiancé e, Tammy.
Aud feels obliged to help-and first in New York, and then Arkansas, she finds herself up against a sociopath so artful that the law can't touch him, and her own demons.