With this #1 NY Times bestseller, Nora Roberts takes readers deep in to the rugged Dark Hills of South Dakota, where in fact the shadows keep secrets, hunters stalk the land, and a childhood friendship matures into an adult passion.

Cooper Sullivan spent the summers of his youth on his grandparents’ South Dakota ranch, sharing innocent video games and stolen kisses using the neighbor lady, Lil Chance. Now, twelve years once they last walked together hand in hand, fate has brought them back again to the Black about Black Hillsides Hills.

Coop offers still left his fast-paced existence as an investigator in New York to deal with his aging grandparents and the ranch he has come to contact home. Although memory of his touch still haunts her, Lil offers let nothing prevent her dream of opening the Chance Animals Refuge, but something…or someone…has been keeping a close watch. When little pranks and functions of damage escalate into a heartless strike on Lil’s beloved cougar, remembrances of an unsolved murder in these extremely hills have House springing to actions to keep Lil safe.

Lil and Coop know the organic risks that lurk in the wild landscape from the Black Hills. But a killer of twisted and unnatural intuition offers singled them out as prey…