Rachel was found frozen in the woods with evidence of Oxycontin in her bloodstream she appeared to have undergone a recent abortion. In bestseller Castillo's exciting eighth Kate Burkholder mystery (after 2015's After the Storm), Sheriff Dan Suggs from Franklin City, N.Y., and Frank Betancourt, a senior investigator with the BCI division of the New York State Police, ask Kate, the Painters Mill, Ohio, police chief, who escaped her Amish upbringing at 18, to go undercover to get to the bottom of the death of a 15-year-old Amish girl, Rachel Esh. In the coming days, she unearths a world built on secrets, a series of shocking crimes, and herself, alone. Kate infiltrates the community and goes deep under cover. She travels to New York where she's briefed and assumes her new identity as a lone widow seeking a new life. But Kate can't turn her back, especially when the rumor mill boils with disturbing accounts of children in danger.
Kate's long time love interest, State Agent John Tomasetti, is dead set against her taking on such an unorthodox assignment, knowing she'll have limited communication - and even less in the way of backup. Unable to penetrate the wall of silence between the Amish and "English" communities, the sheriff asks Kate to travel to New York, pose as an Amish woman, and infiltrate the community. Chief of Police Kate Burkholder is called upon by the sheriff's department in rural, upstate New York to assist on a developing situation that involves a reclusive Amish settlement and the death of a young girl.
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