Special Agent Steven Thatcher is a huge disappointment in this story. Jealousy is one thing, but leaving a woman alone and unprotected when it is your job to protect and you know she is a target on some bullshoot misperception? Really? How insulting to law enforcement officers. Another very wrong is how the author portrayed him in talking to his youngest son. I thought I was ready words spoken by a woman. The author failed in writing from a male prospective. Next wrong, Detective Davies. He is an active law enforcement officer and comes into another jurisdiction with vital case information and doesn't immediately go to the law enforcement office with it?! What true detective would do such a thing? None. Two girls were taken after he got to town and may not have if he had done what a real detective would have. Instead he approaches Thatcher at a kids athletic event and doesn't identify himself but gets pissy because he's spoken to as if he was a reporter and given the appropriate response by Thatcher thinking he is a reporter then he stalks off!!!!! More problems - Dr. Marshall has two professionally trained German Shephards and the don't growl and bark at the intruder on the balcony? Dr. Marshall is a brown belt in karate and doesn't use her skills to knock down and knock out the killer, but runs and gets tackled and drugged? Not to mention allowing her former fiance's dad to talk her into leaving the house when she knew a killer was targeting her? All of this made this book sad and I was ready not to finish it and have no desire to read other books by this author because I can see this kind of ridiculousness making reappearance in her other books.