A pair of ritual : her own past… Raised off the grid by survivalists, Mercy Kilpatrick believed in no greater safeguard than the backwoods of Oregon Unforgiven by her father for abandoning the fold for the FBI, Mercy still holds to her past convictions They’re in her blood They’re her secrets--as guarded as her private survival retreat hidden away in the foothills In a cabin near her hideaway, Mercy encounters a young girl whose grand from multiple knife wounds Hundreds of miles away, a body is discovered slashed to death in a si in the woods--couldn’t be more different With the help of police chief Truman Daly, Mercy must find the killer before the body count rises Mercy knows that the past has an edge on her So does her family How can she keep her secrets nohen they’re the only things that can save her?