Secrets. A small town, isolated on the prairies, bursting at the seams with secrets and brewing hostility. Affairs, broken families, addiction, suicides, and eight women missing over the span of ten years all plague Stancombe, Alberta.

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But then Kirsten Jarroll digs herself from her own grave, claiming a woman tried to bury her alive. More bodies of missing women are found nearby. Overwhelmed, local cops call in the best profiler for chasing down a female killer: Agent Alyssa Rawkesby. With her rookie partner still in tow, she and Thayer delve into the demented mind of a woman hell-bent on revenge by burying her victims alive.

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As Alyssa and Thayer sort through the town’s secrets in order to build a profile, the rumors end marriages and tear families apart. In between it all, Alyssa discovers that Thayer isn’t what he seems.

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The town has never seen anything like this, but Alyssa has. Love and jealousy are motives as old as time, but is that what these murders are truly about? What simmers beneath the surface of the picturesque illusion of bliss and traditional values? How is this murderer hiding in plain sight among the same women she kills? How close to home is she?