Darker Than Midnight

Authors: Shayne, Maggie
Publisher: Mira
BISAC/Subject: FIC030000, FIC027110
ISBN: 9781743697818, Related ISBNs: 1743697813, 9781741162868, 9781743697818
Classification: Fiction
Number of pages: 352,
Audience: General/trade
Synopsis: Darker Than Midnight

Murder. Deception. Betrayal. What lines would you cross for love?

He's got blood on his hands and nowhere to hide River Corbett is an ex–cop with two murders to his name–and now someone wants him dead. After escaping from the mental hospital where he's been held since the night his life fell apart, he heads back to his old hometown of Blackberry, Vermont. He's weak, hungry and he doesn't trust anyone, not even himself.

She's risking everything to right a wrong Cassandra Jackson–'Jax' to her friends–has dark shadows and secrets in her past she's never revealed to anyone. Now she's risking her new job as police chief to protect a man who everyone believes to be a psychotic killer. Are her instincts right? Or is she making a terrible mistake that will cost her own life?

One deeply troubled man. One fiercely independent woman. Together they must question everything they've ever believed in their desperate quest for the truth–no matter how shocking it turns out to be.

A GRIPPING NEW SUSPENSE STORY FROM NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR, MAGGIE SHAYNE. JUST WHEN YOU THINK YOU'VE WORKED IT ALL OUT, BE READY FOR ANOTHER TWIST THAT'S DARKER THAN MIDNIGHT.

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