Author's note: The story description for "Precious Atonement" contains spoilers for "Come Back." These books can be read and understood separately, but they are best enjoyed when read in order. Precious Atonement "Ruined women don't hope, killers don't dream, and the dead don't feel pain." Rachel Emerson is resigned to live as a spinster. Her parents keep her shameful secret, and her only brother, Seth, vanished mere days after witnessing her rape, taking her dishonor with him and giving them all an alibi for their grief. But none of that matters. Appearances are useless if she can't bear the...