Karin Slaughter’snew thriller is an epic tale of love, loyalty, and murder that encompassesforty years, two chillingly similar murder cases, and a good man’s deepestsecrets.

Will Trent is abrilliant agent with the Georgia Bureau of Investigation. Newly in love, he isbeginning to put a difficult past behind him. Then a local college student goesmissing, and Will is inexplicably kept off the case by his supervisor andmentor, deputy director Amanda Wagner. Will cannot fathom Amanda’s motivation,until the two of them literally collide in an abandoned orphanage they haveboth been drawn to for different reasons. Decades before­—when Will’s fatherwas imprisoned for murder—this was his home…

Flash back nearlyforty years: In the summer Will Trent was born, Amanda Wagner is taking herfirst steps in the boy’s club that is the Atlanta police department. One of herfirst cases is to investigate a brutal crime in one of the city’s worst neighborhoods.Amanda and her partner Evelyn are the only ones who seem to care if an arrestis ever made. Now the case that launched Amanda’s career has suddenly come backto life, and it is intertwined with the long-held mystery of Will’s birth andparentage.

Each will need to face down demons from thepast if they are to prevent an even greater terror from being unleashed onAtlanta today.