Publisher's Synopsis
Joe Trumbull doesn't scare easily. A probation officer in the small town of Kingston, New York, he knows how to handle himself, he's not easily intimidated. But tonight Joe Trumbull is scared to death. It's two years since his fiancee, Laurel, was brutally murdered in her home. Two years of horror, despair, and a deep loneliness he thought would never go away. And now he's going on a blind date. Meeting a woman for the first time since Laurel's death. Marlene Frost is a beautiful woman. She's also warm and funny. After the first awkward minutes, Joe is beginning to think that maybe everything is going to be all right. He's wrong. For Joe Trumbull, the evening with Marlene signals the beginning of a new nightmare. A nightmare that with a single blow will destroy his faith in the future and force him to a terrible realization: the past is never past. And the worst is yet to come...
