Mourning Gloria

By Andrew Downs

Deal Ends: Sat 23rd May

The hunt begins in the shadows of the Central Valley.The investigation into Gloria Stone’s disappearance stalled years ago. By the time Agent Leah Hudson takes the case, the trail is ice cold.Affluent wine heiress Gloria Stone survived a brutal attack on her twenty-first birthday, only to vanish shortly after—leaving behind an abandoned car and a town that chose to forget.Leah Hudson is a rising star who just hit a brick wall. After a botched indictment allows a killer to walk, she’s assigned to this dead-end case as a professional exile. But as she retraces the failed investigation, she realizes Gloria wasn’t a tragedy—she was a target.A predator is hunting the Central Valley, seeking a specific kind of survivor: the women the world has already tried to break.Hudson is the only one who sees the pattern, but she has already been seen. The hunter is no longer in the distance; he is walking among the prey, hidden behind a mask she’d never expect.The only thing more dangerous than a cold case is the one that’s still breathing.