She only stepped outside for a minute...

 
But a minute was all it took to turn Jean Kingsley's world upside down--a minute she'd regret for the rest of her life. 
 

 
Stepping into he

r worst nightmare

Because when she returned, she found an open bedroom window and her three-year-old son Nathan gone. The boy would never be seen again. 
 


A nightmare that only got worse.


A tip eventually leads detectives to their killer, a convicted sex offender. Inside his apartment, a gruesome discovery, confirming everyone's worst fears. A slam-dunk trial sends him off to death row, then several years later, to the electric chair. 
 



Case closed. Justice served...or was it?

Now, more than thirty years later, Patrick Bannister unwittingly stumbles across evidence among his dead mother's belongings. Evidence that may throw the entire case into reverse. It paints his mother as Nathan's killer and her brother, a wealthy and powerful senator, as the one pulling the strings.


What really happened to Nathan Kingsley?
 
The more Patrick investigates, the less things add up. There's a hole in the case a mile wide, and he's determined to close it. But what he doesn't know is that he's already become the hunted, and the closer he moves toward the truth, the more he's putting his life on the line. Someone's hiding a secret and will stop at nothing to keep it that way. The clock is ticking, the walls are closing, and the stakes are getting higher as he races to find a killer--one who's hot on his trail. One who's out for his blood.

From Andrew E. Kaufman, author of the #1 bestseller, While the Savage Sleeps...



comes a fast-paced psychological thriller that takes you everywhere you'd never dare to go: from the world of murder-for-hire, to behind the walls of a sanitarium where horrendous acts are committed and then covered up--to the other side of politics, one few ever get to see where power brokers commit the crimes first, then call the shots later.