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Marin had the perfect life. Married to her college sweetheart, she owns a chain of upscale hair salons, and Derek runs his own company. They're admired in their community and are a loving family—until their world falls apart the day their son, Sebastian, is taken. A year later, Marin is a shadow of herself. The FBI search has gone cold. The publicity has faded. She and her husband rarely speak. She hires a PI to pick up where the police left off, but instead of finding Sebastian, she learns that Derek is having an affair with a younger woman.

When Paris Peralta is arrested in her own bathroom—covered in blood, holding a straight razor, her celebrity husband dead in the bathtub behind her—she knows she'll be charged with murder. But as bad as this looks, it's not what worries her the most. With the unwanted media attention now surrounding her, it's only a matter of time before someone from her long hidden past recognizes her and destroys the new life she's worked so hard to build, along with any chance of a future.

Abby Maddox is serving 20 years for slashing Seattle PD officer Jerry Isaac's throat during the harrowing capture of her former lover, serial killer Ethan Wolfe. To the demented fans, lunatics, and creeps on the outside, she is a celebrity. But to Jerry, now a private investigator whose scarred neck and tortured speech are daily reminders of Abby's vicious attack, she alone may be the key to solving a new wave of murders. Because this killer has been sending her love letters, and carving a message on the victims' bodies: Free Abby Maddox.

After a personal tragedy and professional scandal forces homicide detective Vanessa Castro out of Seattle, she takes a new job in Seaside, Washington, determined to make a fresh start. The small beach town, best known for its popular amusement park, Wonderland, seems like the perfect place to raise her young son and teenage daughter. But it's not that easy starting over, especially as the town's new Deputy Chief of Police. When a dead body turns up at the park her first day on the job, and then a teenage Wonder Worker goes missing, Vanessa's investigation is met with resistance.

When she was sixteen years old, Angela Wong—one of the most popular girls in school—disappeared without a trace. Nobody ever suspected that her best friend, Georgina Shaw, now an executive and rising star at her Seattle pharmaceutical company, was involved in any way. Certainly not Kaiser Brody, who was close with both girls back in high school.

In 1985, Edward Shank famously gunned down the Beacon Hill Butcher, ending the serial killer’s reign of terror over the city of Seattle. But now in his eighties, Edward’s action-packed glory days are long behind him. The decorated former Seattle police chief has given up his high-maintenance Victorian home to his grandson Matt for a quiet life at the nearby Sweetbay Village Retirement Residence, where mac-n-cheese Wednesdays have become the highlight of his week.

Dr. Sheila Tao is a professor of psychology, an expert in human behavior with her own hidden past. But she's not the only one keeping secrets. When Sheila began an affair with her sexy graduate assistant Ethan Wolfe, she knew she was playing with fire. Consumed by lust when they were together, she was riddled with guilt when they were apart. Now she's finally engaged to a good man, and it's time to end the dangerous liaison. But Ethan has something different in mind. He intends to make her pay for rejecting him.

Marin hatte alles. Einen attraktiven Ehemann, einen fantastischen Job, einen entzückenden kleinen Sohn. Bis zu dem Tag, als der vierjährige Sebastian spurlos verschwand und ihre ganze Welt zusammenbrach. Ein Jahr später ist Marin nur noch ein Schatten ihrer selbst. Die Polizei hat die Suche aufgegeben. Mit ihrem Mann wechselt sie kaum noch ein Wort. In ihrer Not wendet sie sich an eine Privatermittlerin. Doch statt Sebastian zu finden, macht diese eine andere Entdeckung – Marins Mann betrügt sie. Nach ihrem Sohn wird sie nicht auch noch ihren Mann verlieren.

Vor vierzehn Jahren kehrte Geos beste Freundin Angela nach einer Party nicht nach Hause zurück. Nun wird ihre zerstückelte Leiche gefunden. Für die Polizei ist schnell klar: Angela ist das Opfer des berüchtigten Serienmörders Calvin James. Doch für Geo ist Calvin nicht nur ein Serienmörder. Für sie ist er ihre erste große Liebe. Seit vierzehn Jahren weiß sie, was in dieser einen Nacht geschah, und vierzehn Jahre lang hat sie niemandem davon erzählt. Doch dann werden weitere Frauen ermordet, auf dieselbe Weise wie damals Angela.