Kirjahaku

(Trade Paperback Format) Psychologically damaged and tormented by the memory of an attack on her and her family when she was fifteen, Shailene Campbell lives her life by two rules: Avoid violence, and Be ready if it comes for her anyway. Rule one has held for nine and a half years, but that's about to change. Facing another long, lonely Saturday afternoon, she goes to the mall to escape her one-room apartment, but while shopping for something to read she experiences a painful flashback to her rape. This has happened before, and she thinks she knows what triggers it. Her first impulse is to get home as fast as possible and lock herself in, but refusing to be ruled by fear she instead goes looking for the flashback's trigger. This decision puts her on a collision course with her worst nightmares, the criminally negligent God she suspects might actually exist after all, and herself.

Survivor of a brutal stabbing and sexual assault, Shailene Campbell has the ability to see homicidal sociopaths for what they are. This uniquely qualifies her to find and stop them, but shouldering this responsibility means breaking the promise to herself to stay safe. Now, just out of the Army, Shailene is trying to rebuild her life. She has a job as a computer geek, a small and secure apartment in a quiet neighborhood, and even a new friendship-possibly more-with a gentle architect named Mike. Things are going well, until the bodies of four young boys are discovered in New Jersey's Pine Barrens. Keeping her boss and Mike in the dark, Shailene takes emergency vacation and goes to Trenton, hoping she can find the killer before another boy ends up in a shallow grave. There is always risk when she goes out on a mission, but she cannot anticipate the personal toll this one will exact.