From your bestselling author of Crash comes a riveting thriller rife with murder, misdirection, and ghosts from days gone by.

Florida homicide detective Maggie Novak has seen a huge selection of brutal murder situations, but when she is called out to investigate the charred remains to be of a woman, in what appears to be a Halloween prank gone wrong, she actually is met with a twenty-year-old secret. The body is usually formally identified as that of school counselor Dana Cullen, but a distinguishing mark makes Maggie about Don’t Actually Breathe look once again. She believes it is the body of her college friend Rita, who perished inside a fire two decades ago.

Maggie’s search for the truth behind the murder calls for her back to a cruel senior high school trick she’s eager to forget. And when another body arises, Maggie realizes she as well may be the target of the sinister story creeping toward its last act.

Maggie requirements emotional distance to accomplish her work, but she’s thus close to this case that she may’t even breathe. Will Maggie have the ability to uncover the reality of who needed Rita useless? Or will her past mistakes catch up with her first?