21st Birthday

In this thrilling novel by a #1 New York Times bestselling author, Detective Lindsay Boxer vows to protect a young woman from a serial killer until her twenty-first birthday. When Tara Burke, a young wife and mother, disappears with her baby girl, suspicion falls on her husband, Lucas. He portrays her not as missing but as wayward—until a gruesome piece of evidence makes the case criminal. As Chronicle reporter Cindy Thomas investigates and M.E. Claire Washburn develops theories opposite the SFPD's, ADA Yuki Castellano views Lucas as a classic abuser... until a new suspect emerges. If Lucas's claims hold any truth, no woman in California is safe from an unthinkable threat.