A dark, chilling and brilliantly written thriller set in the canyon lands of Utah.
It started with a child s letter: o god help me hes going to hurt me if you don t do what he says. San Francisco psychologist Karen Wiley thought she understood moral dilemma; a tormented past, a sister lost in childhood to random atrocity, an ugly divorce and a precocious eleven-year-old daughter. He says hes going to hurt me. No one Karen knows has been kidnapped. If the police are powerless, is it her responsibility? But the letters keep coming. Then something far worse.
In an old Mormon mining town...