num_pages: 426
description: Abducted.Terrorized.Imprisoned.At nineteen-years-old college student Josie Stratton was kidnapped by a madman and held shackled for ten months in an abandoned warehouse before she finally escaped her hellish prison.Eight years later when the body of a young woman is found chained in the basement of a vacant house Cincinnati Police Detective Zach Copeland is instantly reminded of the crime committed against Josie Stratton. Zach was just a rookie on the perimeter of that case but hes never forgotten the traumatized woman with the haunted eyes.As more information emerges the crimes take on an even more sinister similarity. But Josies attacker died by suicide. Does the city have a copycat on its hands? A killer who picked up where the original perpetrator left off? Or are they facing something far more insidious?Josie has spent the last eight years attempting to get her life back on track but now theres a very real chance she could be the unknown suspects next target. As Zach vows to keep her safe and Josie finds herself responding to him in a way she hasnt responded to any man in almost a decade the investigation takes on an even more complex edge of danger.As past and present collide Josie and Zach are thrust toward a shocking and chilling truth. A revelation that threatens not only Josies life but everything shes been fighting so desperately to reclaim.
language: English
title: Where the Blame Lies
publisher: Independently published