From the New York Times bestselling author of Superstition and Bait comes the story of Kate White, a single mom and successful prosecutor in the Philadelphia DAâs office. Sheâs used to challenges, but none as terrifying as Mario Castellanos, the violent career criminal sheâs been hired to convict. But Kate and Mario have already metâduring one of the darkest periods of Kateâs past. And Mario knows her secret.
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Now Kate has only one option: Play Marioâs game. But when murder becomes part of it, homicide detective Tom Braga is called in to investigate. And as another threat, even more menacing, emerges from the shadows of Kateâs past, she realizes the only person she can turn to for help is Tomâthe one man she can never trust with the truth.