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Comes a drifter to a windswept island…He wanted to tell her everything. About the lost years that had changed him from a desperate young boy into a man hardened by life. About the night he’d sold his soul for a woman who wasn’t worth the price… But Jackson Underhill said nothing. After all, he was an outlaw, clearly on the run – reason enough for silence.The truth was Dr. Leah Mundy scared him. She made him want to trust again, to share his burden. She made him want a home, a family. And it was dangerous to want such things.Because the past would find him if he stayed – and there could be no future with a woman who would not leave.

It begins with a murdered child. It ends in a valley where nightmares are born.

When Detective Inspector Amaia Salazar is called in to investigate the death of a baby girl, she finds a suspicious mark across the child’s face – an ominous sign that points to murder.The baby’s father was caught trying to run away with the body, whether from guilt or grief nobody can be sure. And when the girl’s grandmother tells the police that the ‘Inguma’ was responsible – an evil demon of Basque mythology that kills people in their sleep – Amaia is forced to return to the Baztán valley for answers.Back where it all began, in the depths of a blizzard, she comes face to face with a ghost from her past. And finally uncovers a devastating truth that has ravaged the valley for years.