Rachel Dulude
When things can't get any worse, they always do...
Alex Mercer and his fiancée Zoey have weathered many storms, but this latest one might be too much for even them. She's hiding a secret she fears will send him running for the hills, and she has to tell him before he finds out on his own. Time is definitely not on her side. But with his busy hours at the police academy, there hardly seems a moment to open up to him.
Alex knows
...A dangerous cult disbanded years ago. Now they're back, and they want revenge.
Alex Mercer spends his spare time operating a blog for missing children—a pastime inspired by his daughter's recent disappearance. Another relative goes missing. As he follows up on leads coming into his site, the police department is inundated with a rash of missing persons cases. The incidents seem unrelated until evidence ties the cases to a dilapidated
...He's dedicated his life to saving missing persons, but will it be enough to save himself?
Alex Mercer traded in his troubled past to protect the powerless. His blog for tracking down missing persons got his foot in the door at the police academy. But on his first day of training, a heroic act drops him into the hands of the captors he once hunted.
Zoey planned to tell Alex how she felt the night he disappeared. As she
...Betrayals. Secrets. Tragedy.
It started as a day like any other for Alex Mercer. Then he heard the news. Something that only happens in other places is happening in his hometown.
Just a few miles away at his daughter's middle school, a shooter is on the loose. Alex does what every other parent in town does—he races to the school to find out if his loved ones are safe.
His world falls apart around him, and he can't turn to
...Someone is burying teenage girls alive.
It's been nearly a full year since there were any local kidnappings, but now girls are going missing left and right. There are few commonalities linking them together, and the only evidence Alex Mercer has are the ransom notes left on each victim's front door.
Tensions mount as clues point to the notorious kidnapping ring driven from town twelve months ago—the
...Alex Mercer thought his worst days were behind him.
Instead, his life is falling apart from the seams. Again. While his marriage is on the brink of divorce, his daughter is once more the target of a potential abductor. Alex will do whatever it takes to keep her safe while working to get to the bottom of the infamous kidnapping ring once and for all.
He believes one of his superiors in the police department to be involved
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