Read by Joe Barrett The next psychological suspense novel by international bestselling author Brian Freeman brings the longawaited return of Lieutenant Jonathan Stride to the bitter cold of Duluth, Minnesota. Ten years ago, sixyearold Catalina Mateo hid under the porch of her family home while a knife butchered her mother and a bullet killed her father. Now a roughsleeping orphan, Cat arrives at the house of Detective Jonathan Stride, pleading for protection. Drenched in the icy waters of Lake Superior, she claims to have narrowly escaped a coldblooded killer. Strides raw instinct is to protect Cat, whose late parents case and his personal guilt associated with it still sends a shiver down his spine. As a result, he takes the troubled teenager under his wing.
