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To the FBI, it's a cold case. To Kariss Walker, it's a hot idea that could either reshape or ruin her writing career. And it's a burning mission to revisit an event she can never forget. Five years ago, an unidentified little girl was found starved to death in the woods behind a Houston apartment complex. A TV news anchor at the time, Kariss reported on the terrifying case. Today, as a New York Times best-selling author, Kariss intends to turn the unsolved mystery into a suspense novel.

This is a book of love from a little boy, my grandson, Connor, who was tragically stabbed and killed by a boy who lured him to the playground because he was tired of living and wanted to die himself. Connor was not afraid. He accepted the boy with open friendliness, as that was how he lived his life. Connor loved the idea that we should recognize love in everyone, and I hope that his book will be a catalyst for others to love more deeply, to forgive themselves and others more easily, and to cultivate compassion from deep within their hearts.

Family secrets and imposing friends are making Chalese feel like an outsider in her very own home on beautiful Whale Island. But it's only when a shocking revelation makes her feel truly lost that she opens her heart to the possibilities the past offers - including a chance at love with the last man she expected...