Twenty years ago, a brutal attack went unsolved.
Two months ago, DNA evidence brought this cold case to a boil.
Today, a relentless prosecutor has one chance to stop this monster before he strikes again.
Small-town prosecutor Mara Brent has faced the toughest criminals without flinching. She is the voice for the most vulnerable of victims. But there’s one woman who has waited for justice for far too long.
Beaten, brutalized and left for dead on a riverbank, Denise Silvers never thought she’d live to see her attacker pay for what he did. When a simple ancestry test breaks the case wide open, Mara is in for the biggest courtroom battle of her career.
Though the suspect is accused of dozens of similar assaults, only Mara’s case has the iron-clad evidence to put him away. But unexpected bombshells at trial threaten to muddy a black-and-white conviction into frightening shades of gray. She suspects there’s a sinister conspiracy out to torpedo the verdict.
Can Mara uncover the truth before a serial predator finds his next victim?