She is still alive. Barely.
Gabby McAllister finds her crumpled beneath a tree - back soaked in blood, wrists bound, body curled around a newborn infant she is shielding with what is left of her strength. The baby is screaming. The woman is barely breathing. And before anyone can learn her name she slips into a coma and takes every answer with her.
The only clue Gabby gets is a vision - four names whispered through the haze like ghosts. Addlynn. Jeanette. Claire. Margaret.
Gabby has lived through murders before. She has felt them, seen them, bled through them in visions that leave scars she can never quite explain. Every time she opens herself up to that kind of pain she pays for it. She knows exactly what touching this woman's hand in the hospital is going to cost her.
She does it anyway. Because this woman risked everything to protect her child. And Gabby is the only one who can find out why.
The visions come in fragments - the searing of a brand into a palm, a shadowed figure filled with terror, a fear so deep and consuming it threatens to pull Gabby under with it. The clues slip through her fingers like smoke. Her brother and his infuriatingly attractive partner are running out of time. And somewhere out there the person who did this is still free.
Gabby will not stop until she finds them.
And when she does - she will bring them to a fiery end.
Book 2 of 8 in the bestselling Messages of Murder series. Each book is a complete standalone mystery with a thread that pulls you straight into the next one.