Rifle slugs...rattlesnakes...runaway trucks...this is not the stress relief and recuperation Dillon MacMillan had in mind when he put the Air Force and Albuquerque in his rear-view mirror, hauling Penny and the kids to a new home and a new life in the mountains. Accidents? Maybe. That's what the sheriff thinks. But the nightmares are back-the ones he tried so hard to leave behind-and now they're in broad daylight and way too real. Dill must face them all at once when his family is trapped at their secluded mountain retreat and plunged into a maelstrom of greed, betrayal, revenge, and terror. Cut off from the outside world, he has to find a way to stop a new nightmare-one more sinister, more chilling, and with more far-reaching consequences than he could have ever foreseen. Dill is no Rambo...just an out-of-work computer tech. But he has Penny, a fiery redhead who wields a wicked skillet in more ways than two. And Lacy, a wounded warrior with a furry secret weapon named Auggie and a surprise or two up her pant leg. And his own fierce determination to keep his family-and a hundred thousand other innocent people-alive. Whatever it takes.266 Print pages