For two minutes she was dead.

The assailant was vicious, his attack brutal—and it left her lifeless upon the floor …until her pulse fluttered and she jolted awake. Now, a year later, Detective Nan Vining is still questioning her strength, her safety, even her sanity: Can she ever again be the cop— and mother—she was before? And will her attacker someday return to finish the job— before she can track him down herself?

Shaky but determined, Vining rejoins the Pasadena PD, only to confront a murder case that strikes too close to home: The body of a slain policewoman has been discovered beneath the Colorado Street Bridge, her body bruised, her throat slit. Even as Vining struggles to recover her standing within the department, she can’t help but feel profoundly drawn to Officer Frankie Lynde… and tormented by otherworldly visions that haunt her waking hours. Are these mere fever dreams? Or could they be, as Nan’s daughter insists, messages from beyond the grave?

Digging deeper into Lynde’s dark past, Vining discovers clues that soon set her on the twisted trail of a killer as ruthless as he is depraved. Amid a storm of spectral shockwaves, and in the face of mounting skepticism from her superiors, Vining pushes herself to bold new limits, desperate both to avenge the murder of a fellow police officer… and to reclaim the life she herself lost a year ago.

Packed with suspense, action, and ingenious detection, Dianne Emley’s pulse-pounding crime story will hold you breathless form the first cut to the last.