A killer is watching...Thirteen years ago, Winter Black came home early from a sleepover to find her parents brutally murdered and her little brother gone--taken by a serial killer called The Preacher. Now a rookie FBI agent assigned to her first murder case, Winter has returned to the small Virginia town where she grew up. But when bones found by a hunter lead to the discovery of a secret burial ground containing the remains of children, the investigation...

One dead. One risen. One caught in between. For more than thirteen years, Winter Black has believed her little brother is dead--kidnapped and murdered by the same lunatic who killed her parents. The news of a lead into Justin's whereabouts brings her out of her hiatus and back to work at the Richmond FBI office. And face to face with the co-workers she's been avoiding. Winter can't avoid them for long because a body is discovered in a fifty-five-gallon...

"Some ghosts still live and breathe...Six months ago, on the night Winter Black and her fellow agents took down The Preacher, a mall massacre occurred. Today, one of the gunmen responsible for taking fifteen innocent lives that night is killed--with a well-placed bullet fired from nearly a mile away. Clearly a professional, either military or law enforcement, the sniper leaves zero evidence, other than a note. When more suspected rapists and murderers...

When the survivors of the massacre at the Riverside Mall are murdered one after the other, the police suspect a serial killer and turn to the FBI. Winter Black is on the case, working to track down the third person involved in the mass shooting that happened the same night she took down The Preacher, the man who killed her parents. The hit list is long while the list of suspects is short, and when the killer ends up dead, the suspect list narrows...

Sometimes, the beginning is the end. For thirteen years, FBI Special Agent Winter Black has been haunted by a man who performed heinous acts. Murdering her parents. Abducting her baby brother. For thirteen years, she's suffered mentally and physically. Often doubted her sanity and ability to move forward to achieve her goal of bringing that brutal man down. Thirteen years of regret. Of hope. Of fear. Of hate. But now, the boy she longs for has transformed...