From New York Times bestselling author Liliana Hart comes a chilling new J.J. Graves mystery that will keep you guessing until the very last page. A dead man. A deadly secret. And a killer who thought he'd gotten away with murder. J.J.

Graves has seen her share of ugly things in her career as King George County's coroner, but Wade Rivers is a corpse she won't soon forget. The wealthy personal trainer is found naked in his luxury condo, a knife buried where no knife should ever be, an American flag draped across his body like some twisted message. Whoever killed him didn't just want him dead--they wanted someone to know why. With Sheriff Jack Lawson at her side, J.J. starts digging into Wade's complicated love life and discovers a trail of secrets, affairs, blackmail, and dangerous obsession. The deeper they go, the more people they find with reasons to want Wade dead. But in this small-town murder mystery, everyone has something to hide--and J.

J. knows better than anyone that the dead can tell a story the living would rather keep buried.