"The murder of eighteen-year-old Angie Vance was exceptionally vile<U+2013>her mouth was sealed with glue, an obscenity was scrawled across her skin and she was suffocated in a garbage bag. The killing seems personal, so police detective Carina Kincaid focuses her efforts on the victim<U+2019>s much older ex-boyfriend, Steve Thomas. But without physical evidence, Carina can<U+2019>t make a collar or a case. She also can<U+2019>t stop Sheriff Nick Thomas, the prime suspect<U+2019>s brother, from conducting his own unwelcome investigation. Though Nick is still scarred and unsteady from a recent confrontation with a serial killer, he<U+2019>s determined to prove his brother<U+2019>s innocence. But his confidence is shaken when he learns of Steve<U+2019>s dark side, and when a friend of the murdered girl meets a similarly gruesome fate. With no time to lose, Carina and Nick work together to trap a psychopath, before another unlucky woman faces an unspeakable end."--Back cover.