Mary Jane Bryan

The pastor's wife is murdered; her dog is also killed. Using a "hair-brained" theory to find a matching dog hair, Sheriff Colton Mitchell follows twists and turns to locate the killer.

Due to unusual circumstances, when Misee Sue makes a "miracle" catch, allowing her high school baseball team to win the state championship, no one sees it. Everyone thinks she's lying--there was no way she could have caught it. The title goes to the other team. Parents, her "soul mate," all the townspeople in this small community totally ignore and shun her, including during graduation. After a week, she cannot stand the hurt and betrayal any longer and drives away to a friend in another town, never to return. Then a farmer comes home from a week-long vacation, raving about the catch he saw Misee Sue make. The championship is overturned and Misee Sue's team wins the title. Everyone runs to find Misee Sue, now convinced she was telling the truth. But the knowledge is bittersweet. It's too late. She is gone.

People are dying in the suburbs of Denver, and a young lady from the streets appears to be the latest victim. Thanks to a friend, she doesn't die, but she does display symptoms of drug toxicity from an unknown substance, similar to the other victims. While investigating the deaths, Detective Colton Mitchell notices a change in his teenage daughter, Abby, who can't seem to do without the straws of orange candy her new boyfriend gives her. When Colton takes one of the straws to his friend, Jack, the medical examiner, Jack is brutally slain before he can reveal the source of the substance. Looking at a map with pins of the locations of the crime scenes, Colton realizes that the murders have occurred in a spiral pattern, and the spiral is closing in on his house...