For Hannah Keller, the past won't stay dead. Just when she thought she'd buried the memory of the unsolved brutal murders of her parents two years ago, the former Miami cop-turned-writer finds a copy of her first novel. It is full of strange marginal notes, underlined passages, and other cryptic messages. She soon realizes that these scribbled hieroglyphics are not the ravings of a madman, but a code that, if broken, will lead her to the murderers of her parents.

For Frank Sheffield, the FBI agent who failed to break the case, the only memory is the Kellers' beautiful daughter, who kept calling him day and night, urging him never to give up. But that was years ago, and now Frank's on a task force searching for a psychopathic hit man named Hal Bonner, whose last victim was the daughter of a powerful U.S. senator.

Hannah's and Frank's separate investigations soon put them on a collision course with danger -- and each other. Connecting the two is the mysterious J. J. Fielding -- an on-the-run financier with millions in embezzled money -- who holds the keys to both cases.

As they team up to unravel the crimes, Hannah and Frank are plunged into a world of deception and lies, where nothing is as it appears, even in the bright Florida sun. Who is the former topless dancer stalking Hannah and her son? Why is Frank's boss desperately trying to keep him away from Hannah? Where is J. J. Fielding? And most frightening of all, who will be Hal Bonner's next victim?

The answers take Hannah and Frank deeper into a wilderness of mirrors, where the only thing they can count on is each other. Or can they? The climax to this riveting and fast-paced thriller will leave the reader reeling.

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