''Stay in the world, Aud . . . Stay alive inside. Promise me.'' Raw with grief, Aud Torvingen has retreated from her life in Atlanta to rebuild a remote cabin in the middle of Appalachia. Her solitude is broken when an old friend asks for her help tracking down his missing fiancee, Tammy. Aud feels obliged to help-and first in New York, and then Arkansas, she finds herself up against a sociopath so artful that the law can''t touch him, and her own demons.

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Nicola Griffith is the Lambda, Nebula, and World Fantasy Award-winning author of nine novels, including Hild and Spear. She holds a PhD from Anglia Ruskin University in Cambridge and is known for both her work on identifying and tracing bias in the literary ecosystem and as a consultant on disability issues. She is a dual US/UK citizen and lives with her wife, fellow writer Kelley Eskridge in Seattle, in a house on the edge of a ravine.

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'Stay in the world, Aud . . . Stay alive inside. Promise me.'

Raw with grief, Aud Torvingen has retreated from her life in Atlanta to rebuild a remote cabin in the middle of Appalachia. Her solitude is broken when an old friend asks for her help tracking down his missing fiancée, Tammy.

Aud feels obliged to help-and first in New York, and then Arkansas, she finds herself up against a sociopath so artful that the law can't touch him, and her own demons.