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Lane McCord wakes up in a hospital having survived a near-fatal fall at a North Carolina beach cottage. Her boyfriend, Kyle, wasn’t so lucky. A senseless tragedy on their first romantic getaway. All Lane remembers is lying at the bottom of the stairs in Kyle’s pooling blood. Confused and grieving, Lane plans to return to the cottage, collect her personal belongings, and get out. Until a winter rainstorm leaves her stranded and vulnerable, but not alone. A concerned neighbor, who claims he heard a violent argument before the accident, has come out of the storm.

After seventeen years away, public defender Raine Hale returns to her family’s crumbling Virginia estate when her estranged cousin Maria is hospitalized following a near-fatal cyanide poisoning. As sole beneficiary of Hale House and guardian to Maria’s five-year-old daughter, Molly, Raine confronts a troubling legacy she vowed never to revisit—and is thrust into a deadly mystery. But she can’t trust anyone.

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.

In death, they are purified. Holding his victims under water, he washes away their sins as they struggle for their last breath. Then he stakes their bodies to the ground, exposing them for what they really are: witches. No one knows about defence attorney Charlotte Wellington's murdered sister, or about her childhood spent with the carnival that's just arrived in town. For Charlotte, what's past is past. But others don't agree. And as a madman's body count rises, she and Detective Daniel Rokov are drawn into a mission that's become terrifyingly personal.

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.