Three fathers collide in this Detective Max Rupert thriller, the follow-up to the Barry Award finalist The Shadows We Hide. Max has left the Minneapolis homicide division after the death of his wife—and he alone knows what befell her killer. But another former lawman, ex-sheriff Lyle Voight, comes to him for help after his daughter Sandy and grandson Pip disappear. Lyle is sure Sandy's cunning ex-husband Reed is behind it, but as Max gets close, the man makes a break for Canada across the formidable Boundary Waters wilderness—with Pip in tow. "Allen Eskens at his most raw and brutal, as he produces some of the best cat-and-mouse games I have read…. There is redemption to be had, but the price may be too high for his characters to pay. This is a novel that you will not easily forget."—BookReporter.com