num_pages: 335
description: They killed a girl to keep their secrets. They wont stop there.A new home a fresh start a chance to do things right this timeand Shaw and North are determined to make it work. But the night of their housewarming party things dont go as planned. A reporter arrives wanting to talk to North about his ex-husband his father and a criminal syndicate. No sooner have they gotten rid of her than another unwanted guest appears: a street boy named Nik whom Shaw met months before begging them to help him find his missing friend Malorie.Retracing Malories steps North and Shaw learn about the dangerous demimonde of runaway teenagers. Their investigation takes them into the path of men and women who have learned to profit off the suffering and abandonment of children: shelters clinics labor brokers and pimps.Meanwhile Norths Uncle Ronnie is set on revenge and his target this time is Norths father. As North struggles to track down Ronnie and put an end to the danger he finds himself considering a deal with the devil and the offer might be too good to pass up.When North and Shaw find Malories body evidence suggests she was murderedand that her death is connected in some way with a truck stop halfway across the state. But as they draw closer to the truth the danger grows. The people who killed Malorie have the Borealis detectives in their sights and North and Shaw must race to save their own lives before the killers can strike again.
language: English
title: Codirection
publisher: Hodgkin & Blount