And that means putting both Orla and her vulnerable young charge in the grave. For, like Orla, the hunter who pursues them knows exactly what to do to survive. But there will be no sanctuary for them in the Highlands. Officially pulled off the Svensen case, Orla spirits Jamie away to the only place she feels safe, a lonely cottage under the shadow of a snowcapped Scottish mountain. Jamie is the only person who’s seen Tord Svensen’s face, the only one able to ID him. What keeps her going are the promises she made to her partner Luke and to orphaned Jamie Buchanan. Now Orla finds herself haunted by the memory of what happened-and tormented by the guilt she feels over her own survival. Then in a series of harrowing events, everything in Orla’s life would change forever. Together they had gone deep undercover in a Glasgow tenement to get close enough to bring him down. Orla and her partner, Luke Tyler, had risked their lives to infiltrate Tord Svensen’s criminal world. For Jamie Buchanan was the sole witness to an act of savagery committed in cold blood by a man rapidly becoming one of the most feared criminals in Europe. So when the Special Branch operation she is spearheading goes disastrously wrong, she will do everything she can to protect the nine-year-old boy caught in the cross fire. As a child, her own world was ripped apart by a brutal, unforgettable moment of terror. For Detective Inspector Orla McLeod, violence is a way of life.

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