Bitter Falls

Gwen Proctor is working to put a painful past behind her when a new job pulls her back in. She is assigned to a cold case in Tennessee: a young man who has been missing for three years, with no leads to follow. His mother, Ruth Landry, is caught in a state of suspended grief, and Gwen, who knows the fear of having children she cannot protect, takes the case personally.

As Gwen pursues the investigation, she uncovers new suspects and new victims, and each lead points somewhere darker than the last. The danger does not stay in Tennessee. A threat is closing in on her home, and the town where she is working has turned against her, her partner Sam, and her children. Behind much of the hostility stands the Belldene family, a powerful and vengeful clan with paramilitary ties and criminal interests.

As old grudges and the case begin to collide, Gwen is ready to fight on both fronts. The question is what that fight will cost the people she loves most.