Book description
Four little girls--each blond, each on the verge of adolescence--stolen
from their families. Their bodies discovered months later in shallow
graves, surrounded by trinkets they never owned, clutching a scrap of
paper bearing a cryptic verse. As a forensic nurse in rural South
Carolina, Ashlee Davenport Chadwick acts as both caregiver and cop,
gathering evidence from anyone who arrives in the local E. R. as the
result of a crime. It's a tough job, both physically and emotionally
draining, but deeply satisfying. Then a child's red shoe is discovered
on Davenport property. The evidence leads Ashlee to the body of a
missing girl and her work suddenly invades every aspect of her life. As
an expert and a witness, she must call upon all her resources. And when
the killer's eye turns to her, she becomes intimately involved with a
crime that tests her mind and her spirit...and the price of failure will
be another child's life. Four little girls--each blond, each on the
verge of adolescence--stolen from their families. Their bodies
discovered months later in shallow graves, surrounded by trinkets they
never owned, clutching a scrap of paper bearing a cryptic verse. As a
forensic nurse in rural South Carolina, Ashlee Davenport Chadwick acts
as both caregiver and cop, gathering evidence from anyone who arrives in
the local E. R. as the result of a crime. It's a tough job, both
physically and emotionally draining, but deeply satisfying. Then a
child's red shoe is discovered on Davenport property. The evidence leads
Ashlee to the body of a missing girl and her work suddenly invades every
aspect of her life. As an expert and a witness, she must call upon all
her resources. And when the killer's eye turns to her, she becomes
intimately involved with a crime that tests her mind and her
spirit...and the price of failure will be another child's life.
