County investigator Seth Harding intends to spend the holidays with his newly reconciled family, but a few days before Christmas, a homicide thwarts his plan. Seth arrives at the scene and makes a painful discovery: the victim is his brother-in-law’s girlfriend. Her apartment has been ransacked and her toddler left motherless. To make matters worse, Seth’s brother-in-law, Bruce, is missing. With Solitude locked in a rare, deadly deep freeze and the temperature plummeting, the residents launch a desperate search.
Seth calls his wife, social worker Carly Taylor, to take the case so the little girl doesn’t get lost in the foster care system. With the holidays near, Carly brings the child home with them to celebrate Christmas. But when the Taylor farm is also trashed, Seth and Carly must race against time—and against a paralyzing winter storm—to find Bruce and catch a killer in the first pulse-pounding sequel to the Rogue River Novellas.
I absolutely love the novellas that deal with the Taylor family and are part of Melinda Leigh and Kendra Elliot collaboration and the first book Tracks of Her Tears, the first book in the Rough Winter Series, is a great way to start a new mini-series by this talented duo. This was a great book and the much needed story of Seth and Carly. It had them working together on a case and gave the reader more about them that was only eluded to in previous books. I enjoyed they mystery in this book and the fact that you were not sure who do it until the end. I also like how it left things open so other cases may be solved or it may just end the way it is. We will just have to wait and see. I can't wait to see where the second novella goes.
Needless to say, being the big fan of this series that I am, this book gets five out of five stars.
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