Publisher's Synopsis
Nine skulls litter a remote clearing in the Black Hills outside Lead, South Dakota, presenting police chief Ben Logan with the crime of his life. The skulls form an incomplete circle, leaving one conclusion: More deaths must complete the pattern.Two local teens disappear. Did they run away to join a Satanic cult? Ben must find out. A car crashes on a rain-slick road; near the wreck Ben discovers their bodies, heads and hearts hacked away. A silver medallion lies beside them.Retired teacher Lorna Hollingsworth identifies the stylized markings on the medallion and tells Ben that a vacationing professor of Native American Studies might be able to shed some light on the glyphs. Morgan Patterson recognizes the jaguar, a beast prominent in Aztec religion. At last Ben has something to go on.Ben chases rumors and reports, fending off the mayor's animosity and the barely suppressed enmity of a fellow officer, but his efforts can't prevent his suspension on a trumped-up charge. But now he can follow his instincts, even when they flaunt the law. Ben dreams, terrible nightmares of slashing talons and a vanishing girl. What secret will Ben find when he digs into his past?And how can he stop the killer before more children die?Season of Evil, Season of Dreams takes the reader into the minds and hearts of two men of similar backgrounds who have followed divergent paths in life. Who will win?
