Synopsis
Lil Chance and Cooper Sullivan became life-long friends after spending their summers together in the beautiful Black Hills of South Dakota. Now adults, they are reunited when a murderer begins to threaten the peace of the town. They join forces to protect each other, and as secrets from their childhood begin to resurface, a terrifying truth is slowly revealed.
Size
Length:	455 pages
Height:	7 in.
Width:	4.3 in.
Thickness:	1.2 in.
Weight:	8 oz.
Publisher's Note
His dreaded summer visits to his grandparents' South Dakota ranch improved by a maturing friendship with neighbor Lil Chance, Cooper Sullivan enters adulthood haunted by his and Lil's discovery of a hiker's body and is unexpectedly called upon to assist his grandparents and Lil years later when the unsolved killing is linked to vandalism at Lil's wildlife refuge. Reprint. A #1 best-seller.
Industry reviews
"[T]his premiere storyteller proves an ordinary love story can still win your heart, and even an inevitable confrontation may scare you silly."  (03/23/2009) "It doesn't much matter what I say about this new Nora Roberts novel; most of the adult female population of the planet is going to read it anyway. It's a staggering understatement to say that Roberts is review-proof."  (07/13/2009)

Synopsis
Lil Chance and Cooper Sullivan became life-long friends after spending their summers together in the beautiful Black Hills of South Dakota. Now adults, they are reunited when a murderer begins to threaten the peace of the town. They join forces to protect each other, and as secrets from their childhood begin to resurface, a terrifying truth is slowly revealed.
Size
Length:	455 pages
Height:	7 in.
Width:	4.3 in.
Thickness:	1.2 in.
Weight:	8 oz.
Publisher's Note
His dreaded summer visits to his grandparents' South Dakota ranch improved by a maturing friendship with neighbor Lil Chance, Cooper Sullivan enters adulthood haunted by his and Lil's discovery of a hiker's body and is unexpectedly called upon to assist his grandparents and Lil years later when the unsolved killing is linked to vandalism at Lil's wildlife refuge. Reprint. A #1 best-seller.
Industry reviews
"[T]his premiere storyteller proves an ordinary love story can still win your heart, and even an inevitable confrontation may scare you silly."  (03/23/2009) "It doesn't much matter what I say about this new Nora Roberts novel; most of the adult female population of the planet is going to read it anyway. It's a staggering understatement to say that Roberts is review-proof."  (07/13/2009)