Atlee Pine has a memory stuck in her mind like a steel splinter: she is six years old, and a man who invades their home uses a nursery rhyme to choose between her and Mercy, her twin sister. In the end, he settles on Mercy and takes her away with him. Atlee never saw her sister again... Thirty years later, FBI special agent Pine, desperate to wrest a confession from the maniac whom she considers Mercy's kidnapper, returns to the scene of the long-ago tragedy. Her childhood home in Andersonville, Georgia is her last hope. But personal investigation, vital as it may be, will have to wait. Here, in the outback, where nothing special has happened since Gone with the Wind, an extremely mysterious murder has been committed: a young woman is not only brutally deprived of her life, but is also dressed after that in an antique wedding veil...This will be the second in the Atlee Pine series , following the bestselling Long Road to Mercy.