A woman who specializes in exposing lies finds herself trapped in a real-life nightmare in this “fast-paced” (Booklist) and sexy novel from the New York Times bestselling author of Dark Truth.

“Mariah Stewart is one to watch and savor for a long time.”—The Philadelphia Inquirer

Sometimes the truth hurts. Sometimes it kills.

Star crime journalist Regan Landry has long struggled to emerge from the shadow of her literary-legend father. Now she’s onto the story of a lifetime: a convicted rapist-murderer freed from death row hours before his execution. Lester Ray Barnes had maintained his innocence from the very beginning—but a week after speaking to Regan, he mysteriously vanishes . . . and soon afterward, young women start turning up dead on the Outer Banks of North Carolina. Is it a coincidence, or merely the next chapter in a grisly saga that should have ended in the death chamber?

Tracking a trail of chilling clues, Regan and FBI special agent Mitch Peyton must confront the horrifying possibility that they have helped to free a cunning monster with an insatiable appetite for death—and a ruthless determination never to be caged again.