Talented but unpredictable photographer Day Randall has been living rent-free in Kelly Durrell’s Colorado condo for eight months. Day needs you to definitely keep an eye on her. Kelly requirements someone to draw her out of her stable but not spectacular life. The set up works for both of them.

Then Kelly returns one day to get Day gone. There is no notice, no phone call. Day’s car is still parked out front, but her space can be starkly, suspiciously spotless.

No one seems to care. The police certainly about Darkroom aren’t interested in a lacking bipolar designer, but Kelly knows something is wrong. Day wouldn’t simply leave.

Only, Kelly traces Day’s last actions through shadowy back again rooms of Boulder nightclubs and to a remote control mountain estate, where the wealthy protect themselves at the rear of electric fences and armed guards. On the way, she uncovers a sinister underworld lying just underneath the hill snow, and a group of powerful individuals who will do anything to safeguard the secrets concealed in Day’s enigmatic photos.

If she trusts the incorrect person, Kelly herself will be the next to disappear.

If you want suspenseful thrillers with unexpected plot twists, a strong feeling of place, and heroes that one reader describes as thus well-drawn you’d swear these were relatives, you’ll love Mary Maddox’s dark, compelling book.

First Prize for Fiction 2017 IndieReader Breakthrough Awards

A Night Owl Evaluations Top Pick: “Sensational!…A haunting novel full of suspense and not just a little terror.”

Hailed by Best Thrillers among the year’s perfect crime thrillers.