Markus Novak has never understood the full story of how and why his wife was murdered on a lonely road in a Florida village, and now the man who killed her is out of prison. In Montana, a senseless act of vandalism shuts the lights off in the town of Red Lodge, forcing high voltage linesman Jay Baldwin to go deep into the mountains. Now his wife Sabrina has been abducted by Garland Webb, and in this sequel to Last Words, Markus Novak is chilled to see that his wife's murderer is at it again.