As ever, I owe a great debt of gratitude to Deborah Schneider and to all the folks at Gelfman Schneider who have helped guide me safely through the whitewater of publishing.

About the Author

GALEN EVANS

Hailed by best-selling author T. Jefferson Parker as “a strong new voice in American crime fiction,” J. Carson Black has written fourteen novels. Her thriller, The Shop, reached #1 on the Kindle Best-seller list, and her crime thriller series featuring homicide detective Laura Cardinal became a New York Times and USA Today bestseller. Although Black earned a master’s degree in operatic voice, she was inspired to write a horror novel after reading The Shining. She lives in Tucson, Arizona.

Also By J. Carson Black

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The Shop

Darkness On The Edge Of Town

Dark Side Of The Moon

The Laura Cardinal Novels (Omnibus)

The Devil’s Hour

Cry Wolf

Roadside Attraction

Writing as Margaret Falk

Dark Horse

Darkscope

The Desert Waits

Deadly Desert (Omnibus)

Writing as Annie McKnight

The Tombstone Rose

Superstitions

Short Stories

The Bluelight Special

Pony Rides

The characters and events portrayed in this book are fictitious. Any similarity to real persons, living or dead, is coincidental and not intended by the author.

Text copyright © 2013 Margaret Falk

All rights reserved.

No part of this book may be reproduced, or stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise, without express written permission of the publisher.

Published by Thomas & Mercer, Seattle

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ISBN-13: 9781612182711

ISBN-10: 1612182712

Library of Congress Control Number: 2013906870