A serial killer, a woman on the run, and an obsessive parole officer tangle in a psychological net of death and secrets … Four years ago, Kerry Grey was arrested as an accomplice to her serial killer husband Lucas when a severed finger was found in her car. Kerry had no idea that her missing husband was responsible for the brutal slayings of three young woman. Now, out on parole, she is ready to start anew and reunite with her young son. But when a vigilante group inflamed by fear and motivated by reward money, sparks a fevered hunt for Lucas, the nightmares of her past return. Only one person helps Kerry evade the hysteria of the media—her parole officer, Adam Nash. Can she trust Nash to help her? What she doesn’t know is that Nash recently moved to this backwoods town of Joy, Montana, to secretly fulfill his own obsessive ambition: solving the Hatchet Killer mystery and bringing her husband to justice.  Kerry’s new life turns dark when she discovers that Lucas has been secretly giving their son carvings made of bone. And when a freshly dismembered victim is uncovered in the forest, the law is after her. Kerry escapes up a mountainous trail to find Lucas and, one way or another, to end this nightmare. In a final twist of lies and betrayal Kerry finds Lucas … and the truth that will change everything.