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Julia Vargas is a cop with a mission. When she's not chasing down bad guys, Julia dedicates her time to investigating the Hangman serial killer...the same unsolved case that her father, Jim Vargas, was working on when he supposedly shot and killed himself three decades before. While rumors continue to swirl around her father's death, Julia attempts to hunt down the truth. The case once again hits dangerously close, however, when a woman's bones are discovered in a historic downtown home.

Ten years ago as an undergrad, Joan Mason escaped an arsonist’s fire. Shaken, she fled the small collegiate Montana town, leaving behind friends and not looking back. Now a Philadelphia homicide detective, Joan’s trying to put her traumas to rest. It’s not easy. Elijah Weston, the classmate who torched her house, is out of prison and returning to Missoula. Gut instinct tells Joan he’ll strike again. To stop him, she must return to the past as well. To face not only the man she fears but Detective Gideon Bailey, too. The man she loved and left behind.

Cold case reporter Sloane Grayson has come to a small mountain town in Virginia to solve a mystery. Thirty years ago, her mother was one of four women who vanished during a music festival. The event’s promoter was eventually convicted of their murders, and Sheriff CJ Taggart closed the case. But for Sloane, it’s still open. Because the bodies were never found. With Taggart now long dead, Sloane must make do with questioning the victims’ families and the few remaining witnesses once again. If they’re still willing to dredge up memories of a crime that made their town notorious.

קורבנות טראומה אינם דבר חדש עבור החוקרת הרפואית פיית' מקינטייר, אבל המקרה החדש שהגיע אליה שונה. מייסי קרואו, סוכנת אף־בי־איי ששוכבת בבית החולים מחוסרת הכרה לאחר תאונת פגע וברח, דומה לה דמיון מטלטל. כשפיית' רואה את מייסי לראשונה היא מרגישה כאילו היא מביטה במראה. אבל איך זה ייתכן? מה עשתה מייסי בסמטה אפלה באמצע הלילה, באותו היום שבו שלחה לפיית' הודעה? פיית' ידעה תמיד שהיא מאומצת, אבל עכשיו היא מגלה שנסיבות הולדתה אפופות בסודות, ושהיא בעצם אינה יודעת דבר.