Survive while you can

It' s a particularly deadly winter in the American Northwest, and rising FBI star Laurel Snow is hunting a serial killer with a terrifying modus operandi. Bodies were found near churches, charities and counselling centres – The killer shoved heart-shaped Valentine' s Day candies down each of their throats. The victims are good men with families and strong ties to the community – At least that' s what it seems like until Laurel and her team start investigating. Then the case takes a shockingly personal turn when Laurel' s father, a former pastor she' s never met, turns up among the dead.

Now, in addition to solving her father' s murder, the agent is trying to uncover the truth about his past. Complicating matters is her troubled half-sister Abigail, a brilliant sociopath determined to prove that they have both inherited their father' s malignant narcissism.

The agent is assisted by Huck Rivers, a loner whose trust in natural instinct puts him at odds with Laurel' s cold, analytical approach. But what if the killer targets Huck' s own dark secrets?