Clinical psychologist Aimee Gannon’s seventeen-year-old client Taylor Dawkin becomes a suspect in the gruesome murder of her own parents when she’s found blood-covered and catatonic between their lifeless bodies. If she didn’t do it, she’s the only one who knows what happened that night.

Detective Josh Wolf needs Aimee’s help to decipher the pattern of rectangles and circles that Taylor drew in blood at the crime scene.

Aimee and Josh must work together to uncover Taylor’s terrifying secret . . . before the deadly shadows of the past strike again.

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