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An artist concealing from an escaped killer uncovers among World War II’s most dangerous secrets-a secret that desperate men can do anything to preserve hidden.

Following the murder of her twin sister, Murphy Anderson about Formula of Deception: A Book changed her name and appearance and shifted to Kodiak, Alaska, in order to avoid the press and publicity. But when local regulators discover she’s an designer and request her assist in sketching a dying man’s remembrances, she unintentionally results in the limelight again-and back in the killer’s crosshairs.

The deathbed confessions of the Alaskan hunter have Murphy sketching the five bodies he discovered on remote Ruuwaq Isle a decade ago. But what investigators find has them mystified. Evidence suggests that the body were deliberately damaged, and what they uncover within an abandoned Quonset hut from Globe War II just brings more queries.

As you by one the investigators who were at the hut pass away, Murphy knows there is certainly something much darker on the line. What happened upon this island through the battle? And who’s willing to kill to keep its secrets buried?