The third book in the hugely popular Peter Decker and Rina Lazarus series from New York Times bestselling author Faye Kellerman In the silent pre-dawn city hoursalone with his thoughts about Rina Lazarus, the woman he loves, three thousand miles away in New YorkLAPD detective Peter Decker finds a small child, abandoned and covered with blood that is not her own. It is a sobering discovery, and a perplexing one, for nobody in the development where she was found steps forward to claim the little girl. Obsessed more deeply by this case than he imagined possible, Decker is determined to follow the scant clues to an answer. But his trail is leading him to a killing ground where four bodies lie still and lifeless. And by the time Rina returns, Peter Decker is already held fast in a sticky mass of hatred, passion, and murderin a world where intense sweetness is accompanied by a deadly sting.