Delighted when they finally achieve their dream of adopting a baby, Jack and Melissa are devastated when their daughter Angelinas teenage birth father and her grandfather, a powerful Denver judge, set out to put aside the adoption and, realizing that there is something sinister about their motivations, risk everything to protect their child. Reprint.
New York Times bestselling author C.J. Box delivers a novel about something that could be anyone's worst nightmare...
Jack and Melissa McGuane have spent years trying to have a baby. Finally their dream has come true with the adoption of their daughter, Angelina. But nine months after bringing her home, they receive a devastating phone call
Angelina's birth father, a teenager, never signed away his parental rightsand he wants her back. Worse, his father, a powerful Denver judge, will use every trick in the book to make sure it happens. The McGuanes attempt to meet face-to-face with the father and son
but soon it becomes clear that there's something sinister about their motivationsand that love for Angelina is not one of them.
A horrifying game of intimidation and double crosses begins that quickly becomes a death spiral where everyone is suspect and no one is safe. Now Jack and Melissa will stop at nothing to protect their childeven though time is running out
C.J. Box has once again written a bone-chilling thriller that will keep you guessing until the very last page.
