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Sheriff Heidi Kick is on a deadly hunt for a serial killer while also in the midst of a hotly contested reelection campaign in the third thrilling novel in the "fast-paced and utterly addictive" (Lori Rader-Day, author of Under a Dark Sky) Bad Axe County series.Sheriff Heidi Kick has a mysterious dead body on her hands—a homeless young man who was buried alive. Chillingly, this matches a haunting recurring nightmare Kick has been having ever since she began suspecting she is pregnant again. Facing an ugly fight for reelection and afraid to start a rumor by going to the doctor or the drugstore, the sheriff keeps her pregnancy a secret even from her husband and three children. While a record heat wave suffocates remote rural Wisconsin, Kick races to unravel a bizarre and complex serial killer case, while also dealing with vicious political attacks and the troubling behavior of one of her twin boys. As the relentless heat bears down and...