Frankie Elkin is an expert at finding the missing persons that the rest of the world has forgotten, but even she couldn´t have anticipated this latest request-to locate the long-lost sister of a female serial killer facing execution in three weeks´ time.
She has called herself "death," but people called her the devil.
The case was sensational. Kaylee Pierson had confessed from the very beginning, waived all appeals. Despite the media´s chronicling of her tragic circumstances-the childhood spent with a violent father-no one could find sympathy for "the Beautiful Butcher" who had led eighteen men home from bars before viciously slitting their throats.
Now, with only twenty-one days left to live, Pierson has finally received a lead on the whereabouts of the sister who was kidnapped over a decade ago, and she needs Frankie´s help to find her. The Beautiful Butcher´s offer:
When was the last time your search ended with finding the living?
Unable to resist the chance for a rescue, Frankie takes on Pierson´s request. Twelve years ago, five-year-old Leilani went missing in Hawaii. The main suspect? Pierson´s tech mogul ex-boyfriend, Sanders MacManus. Now, on a remote island in the middle of the Pacific-the site of MacManus´s latest vanity project-fresh evidence has appeared. In order to learn the truth and possibly save a young woman´s life, Frankie must go undercover at the isolated base camp. Her challenge: A dozen strangers. Countless dangerous secrets. Zero means of calling for help. And then the storm rolls in…