Hunter's Heart

Fifteen years ago, Sawyer Caldwell murdered four people—but left me alive. Now, on the run from my abusive ex, the dense Appalachian forest where I once escaped a killer's grasp is the only place I feel safe. Except someone's lurking in those trees. Watching me. Waiting. It can't be Sawyer Caldwell. He's dead. Shot by the police. So who's hunting me in the woods— And why do I wish it's the serial killer who let me live?

It's been three months since my best friend Edie disappeared. The cops don't care, so if anyone's going to find her, it's me. Until I make the mistake of stopping at a roadside diner in southern Louisiana. Now, a seriously unhinged serial killer has me chained up in his crumbling old house in the middle of nowhere. He says he's not allowed to kill me. So what's he going to do to me instead?

I devoted my entire life to the Church of the Well and its leader. But then death came to our community. And then he came. Ambrose Echeverría. He says he's an itinerant preacher. He lays hands on our congregation and fills them with God's light. He fills me with God's light. And for the first time, I can feel my devotion slipping—even if I can sense the darkness slipping in through the cracks.