In a sleepy mountain town, widow stares anxiously out of her kitchen window while a storm rages outside. When the knock comes, she glances back at her daughters before opening the door with trembling hands... vows to get to the bottom of a heartbreaking murder that has rocked Mount Chester. A single mother has been brutally killed in front of her three daughters. The youngest, three-year-old , is lying inches from the body, her pigtails loose, her face tear-stained. Eight-year-old is discovered hiding under her bed. Sixteen-year-old is nowhere to be found. The first twenty-four hours are critical in child abductions, and the girls are the key to saving their missing sister. But Heather is in shock, unable to communicate, and all tiny Erin can say is "A monster came". When Kay finds three suitcases lined up in the hallway, it's clear that the family were about to run away. But why? And who were they trying to escape? Thanks to her own past, Kay knows all about traumatic childhoods shrouded in tragedy, and she works around the clock to get justice for the orphaned girls. Turning the town upside down, she uncovers the shocking truth about their peaceful community: it's home to a serial killer who preys on helpless girls. Faced with the most twisted case of her career, can she catch the monster before another innocent life is lost? " ... . Just what I needed on this stormy day, a thriller that gave me the creeps and ... It's eerily dark and ." , ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ "I only have one word to say about this book-- Honestly, I felt like I was watching some sort of action-packed movie... ... Too many suspects and too many twists and turns... and and the ending was unexpected!... This was you won't expect--worth five stars!"