THE EXCITING NEW FOLLOW-UP TO 2022'S BOOK OF THE YEAR. From ITW Thriller Award nominee and bestselling author Robert Gregory Browne, comes a gripping new Jefferson Shaw thriller, a follow-up to DOUBLE NEGATIVE, the 2022 Author's on the Air Book of the Year. A LONELY MOUNTAIN ROAD Jefferson Shaw never picks up hitchhikers. But when he sees a fifteen year old girl thumbing a ride in the middle of the night, he's compelled to break his rule, and delivers her into the safe hands of local law enforcement. TWO BRUTAL MURDERS But then the hitchhiker goes missing, leaving a couple of dead bodies in her wake, and Shaw finds himself drawn into the investigation of a double homicide, butting heads with a willfully ignorant police detective whose theory of the case is all wrong. So Shaw decides to follow his own path-a path that leads him to a charismatic but sadistic cult leader, a violent biker gang, and a psychopathic killer who soon has Shaw directly in his crosshairs.