The sleepy little town in the California desert was supposed to be a sanctuary for Detective Bree Fitzpatrick--a place of refuge from the big-city crime that had left her a widow with three children to raise. But something was wrong, terribly wrong, in Warm Springs. Nothing could have prepared even a hardened police officer like her for the dark mystery of this place--a mystery that had cost far too many people their lives. And nothing could have prepared her for Cole Becker, the devastingly handsome newspaper reporter who was determined to help her uncover the truth--and show a grieving woman that she could have a second chance at love....