Farewell in the Fireworks

The snow in the Cascades doesn’t wash away the red; it only preserves it. Two weeks after Logan Whitaker evicted his wife into a freezing New Year’s Eve night, all that remains of Aria Hayes is a severed finger on a killer’s necklace and a blood-soaked report from the Seattle PD. The Whitaker massacre years ago claimed Logan’s family, but his own cruelty claimed Aria, leaving her to the mercies of a madman in the woods while he watched fireworks with another woman. Now, as a mangled body is pulled from the quarry and a bone pendant is clutched in a grieving, alcoholic hand, the ghost of a debt-ridden girl haunts the halls of a manor built on betrayal. Aria is presumed dead, Logan is finally breaking, and the monster in the trees is still taunting them with the pieces he took. In the wreckage of a toxic empire, the only thing more dangerous than the Whitaker name is the truth of what happened before the screaming stopped.