A New York Times BestsellerLucas Davenport has been through some changes. His old boss, Rose Marie Roux, has moved up to the state level and taken Lucas with her, creating for him a special troubleshooter job for the cases that are too complicated or politically touchy for others to handle. In addition, Lucas is now married and a father and doesn"t mind being a family man. But he is a little worried. For every bit of peace you get, you have to pay -- and he is waiting for the bill. It comes in the form of two people found hanging from a tree in the woods of northern Minnesota. What makes the situation particularly sensitive is that the bodies are of a black man and a white woman, and they are naked. As Lucas begins to discover, the murders are not what they seem, and they are not the end of it. There is worse to come -- much, much, more.