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The Dark Side of Winter

Thirteen years ago, Amy Oakley disappeared without a trace.

Winter Evans never stopped looking.

Now a homicide detective in Colorado, Winter is called to the scene of a brutal murder. Standing among the witnesses is a woman she thought she'd never see again—a woman calling herself Constance.

Amy is alive.

Married. A mother. And pretending she has never met Winter.

As another body is discovered and the investigation begins to unravel a trail leading back to an isolated Christian conversion program hidden in the mountains, Winter is forced to confront the past she buried long ago. The girl she loved vanished into a world built on silence, obedience, and fear. Someone is making sure its secrets stay that way.

The deeper Winter digs, the more she realizes the murders aren't random. They're a reckoning.

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Content Note: This novel contains themes of murder, religious trauma, coercive control, conversion therapy, homophobia, psychological, physical and sexual abuse, and violence that some readers may find distressing.