Lil Chance and Cooper Sullivan became life-long friends after spending their summers together in the beautiful Black Hills of South Dakota. Now adults, they are reunited when a murderer begins to threaten the peace of the town. They join forces to protect each other, and as secrets from their childhood begin to resurface, a terrifying truth is slowly revealed.

His dreaded summer visits to his grandparents' South Dakota ranch improved by a maturing friendship with neighbor Lil Chance, Cooper Sullivan enters adulthood haunted by his and Lil's discovery of a hiker's body and is unexpectedly called upon to assist his grandparents and Lil years later when the unsolved killing is linked to vandalism at Lil's wildlife refuge.

His dreaded summer visits to his grandparents' South Dakota ranch improved by a maturing friendship with neighbor Lil Chance, Cooper Sullivan enters adulthood haunted by his and Lil's discovery of a hiker's body and is unexpectedly called upon to assist his grandparents and Lil years later when the unsolved killing is linked to vandalism at Lil's wildlife refuge. 850,000 first printing.