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Michael "River" Corbett, a deeply drugged patient at a state mental hospital, is on the run after a murder charge linked to his dead wife. Police lieutenant Cassandra "Jax" Jackson, torn between duty and mercy, opts to protect him, sensing a deeper truth. Jax’s teenage companion, Dawn Jones, inherits her father’s eerie gift of hearing voices, a curse that threatens to unmoor the trio unless they heed warnings from the dead.
First publish date: 2005
Genre: Suspense/Romantic Suspense
Authors: Maggie Shayne
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