THE FOOTPRINTS WERE ETCHED IN THE SNOW FOR MILES, PASSING THROUGH WALLS AND CROSSING RIVERS...APPEARING ON THE OTHER SIDE AS THOUGH NO BARRIER COULD STOP THEM.
In 1922 a farmer in Adamant, Arkansas, awakes to a noise on his roof and finds his snow-blanketed yard marked with thousands of cloven footprints. The prints vanish with the melting snow...only to reappear seventy years later near the gruesome killing of Rachel DeLaune.
Years after her sister's unsolved murder, New Orleans tattoo artist Sarah DeLaune is haunted by the mysteries of her past. Sarah has always believed
Seven yers ago, Claire Doucett's daughter vanished without a trace. A clue has finally surfaced--a doll that looks exactly like her missing child. Claire's search will lead her from a quaint collectibles shop in the French Quarter to the murky Louisiana bayou country and the shadowy home of an eccentric doll maker whose 'portrait' dolls resemble missing children.
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Travis McSwain wasn’t a man easily spooked, but the doll was getting to him. She was so lifelike that anyone glancing through the shop window might mistake her for a pretty little blonde-headed girl.
But up close, the eyes gave her away. They looked like pieces of turquoise. Travis had never seen real eyes that color.
He didn’t like staring at her for too long because his mind kept playing tricks on him. Earlier, when he’d loaded her up to bring her into the city, he could have sworn those glass eyes followed his every move. Gave him t
Maria, raised in the Mafia and educated by the gangs of New York, is hunting the man who killed her Akalina, and she will kill anyone who gets in her way.
