Cold River

December 2009

Get swept away in a RIVETING NEW NOVEL by New York Times bestselling AUTHOR CARLA NEGGERS

A Black Falls Novel

An elite smokejumper and a self-made woman lock horns as they search for the architect behind a network of killers in COLD RIVER (MIRA Books, December 2009, $7.99 U.S./ $8.99 CAN.), the newest novel in New York Times bestselling author Carla Neggers’ Black Falls series.

Hannah Shay and Bowie O’Rourke led hardscrabble lives, growing up on the wrong side of the tracks in Black Falls, in the heart of Vermont’s Green Mountains. After the deaths of her parents, Hannah was forced to singlehandedly raise her two younger brothers. Despite this hardship, she has made a success of herself. She is co-owner of the popular Three Sisters café and is about to graduate law school. Bowie has been less fortunate. A wild youth and brushes with the law have seen him spend some time in jail. A stonemason by trade, Bowie pretty much keeps to himself these days to avoid violating his probation. Friends since childhood, Hannah and Bowie still feel they are judged by where they come from rather than what they’ve made of themselves—especially since Drew Cameron was murdered.

Sean Cameron, who left Vermont to fight wildfires, has returned to Black Falls from his home in California to help his family discover who engineered their father’s death. Drew Cameron’s killers were dispatched by their mysterious employer before they could be apprehended but the relentless Cameron siblings are determined to bring the individual(s) behind this network of killers to justice. So, when Hannah Shay treks up Cameron Mountain to the site where their father was killed, their suspicions are raised. And, when she seeks out Bowie immediately after, they are sure she knows more than she’s saying.

But Hannah’s unwilling to divulge anything when Sean confronts her. Sean senses that Hannah is trying to protect Bowie. Hannah believes Bowie is innocent but suspects he may have evidence that can shed some light on the case. But she’s not about to tell Sean that. The Camerons have always thought Bowie was trouble and are all too willing to believe that he was somehow tangled up in this mess.

However, when Hannah’s life is endangered she begins to wonder if, perhaps, Sean is right and she is protecting a killer….