Jed Smith leaves California, his job as an L.A.P.D. Homicide Detective, and his ex-wife to become a Deputy Sheriff in a small East Texas town. At first Lamar seems the ideal place to hide from the memory of his son=s murder, then the first child is found dead in a field just outside of town. Jed finds himself in the midst of a series of child murders that are very different from anything he's ever encountered. Along the way, Jed meets some unique East Texas characters like the ladies of the OWC Realty who try to sell him more than a house; Mike Burnham, one the deputies who becomes Jed=s...

A young Hispanic gang member lies dead in a sea of blood on the sidewalk. It doesn't take long for Lieutenant Frank Decker of the Bellewood Police Department to decide that this is not just another gang related killing. While knife wounds were common, finding the victim's internal organ lined up neatly at his feet was not. Neither were the letters Z and O carved on the victim's forehead. Crime in the city of Bellewood seems to have taken on a bizarre twist When a second man is discovered in his sixth floor office mutilated in the same manner, the media begin calling it "The Return of the...