num_pages: 323
description: Faint sunlight dapples the two figures lying on the ground. The mother cradles her daughter close to her side a stuffed toy elephant next to them. Leaves from the tall trees fall onto their faces but neither moves to brush them off.When a dog walker in a local Virginia park finds the bodies of a mother and daughter Detective Amanda Steele is first on the scene. Her own daughter has a toy just like the girls elephant and seeing the child like this is her worst nightmare come true. Heartbroken she vows to get justice.They quickly get an IDJill Archer and six-year-old Charlotte were reported missing last week but interviewing Jills husband Roy Amandas gut tells her he is hiding something. When the autopsy reveals a terrible pattern of bruises shes certain that a domestic argument escalated out of control and tiny Charlotte got caught in the crossfire. But just as Amanda is about to arrest Roy another grave is found containing another mother and daughter.Desperate for a lead she goes to every place the women could have been targeted and learns from a concerned ER nurse about Leanne Reilly and her young daughter Gracie who havent been heard from in a week. Amanda hopes that Leanne has simply left her deadbeat husband but shes gripped by the fear that they are the killers latest victims. Now every second counts for Amanda to find the family and stop a little girls nightmare before it ends in tragedy
language: English
title: Her Final Breath
publisher: Bookouture