Kelly Cross

A dead man. A buried lie. And a sheriff who won't look away. When a trusted arborist is killed beneath a falling tree during a violent Colorado windstorm, Sheriff Ray Duke is told it was a tragic accident. Wrong place. Wrong time. Bad luck.

A missing girl. A dead hunter. One sheriff caught in the storm. When a seasoned hunter is found murdered in the Colorado high country and a teenage girl vanishes hours later, Sheriff Ray Duke doesn’t believe in coincidences. Not in Blue Sky County. Not with the snowstorm rolling in.

Two deaths. One small town. And a secret that won’t stay buried. When Sheriff Ray Duke finds a burned-out car on a mountain pass, it looks like an accident. Days later, a former deputy dies in a “single-vehicle crash,” that looks like bad luck.

In the mountains, the truth is never as buried as the dead. When Blakely Rhodes disappears in the Colorado backcountry, all that's left behind is blood on the trail, a rising panic—and a boyfriend whose story won't stay straight.

Mercy was supposed to save him. Instead, it buried the truth. When a truck is pulled from a frozen Colorado lake, Sheriff Ray Duke expects a tragic accident. Instead, he finds a body. No ID. No plates. No answers.

A flash flood. A body in the river. A murder no storm could hide. Sheriff Ray Duke barely survives rescuing a family from the raging waters—but when the flood recedes, it leaves behind coffins ripped from an old mining cemetery… and a corpse that didn’t drown.