Rachel Goddard has started a new life in Mason County, Virginia, leaving the traumas of the past and the people the that she loves behind. In Heat of the Moon, where we last saw Rachel, she was working in a veterinary clinic run by fellow veterinarian Luke Campbell, who had become her lover. Now she has moved on, opening her own practice in Mason County and befriending Tom Bridger and Holly Turner.
When a set of human bones is discovered on a remote hilltop, Tom Bridger is convinced that there is a connection to the unsolved disappearance of Pauline McClure, Holly's aunt. When Rachel and Holly, who is staying with her, become the targets of a series of violent attacks, the cold case heats up. The remains of a second body turn up on the mountaintop and Tom begins to suspect that Holly's mother, Jeanne Turner, who has not been home to Mason County in years, might have been involved, but the Turner family is not cooperating. Tom's research dredges up old questions and and suspicions about his late father, who was in charge of the original investigation, but why are Rachel and Holly being targeted and is it connected to this case or Rachel's past? Is there a connection between the bones and Holly's father's criminal activities? Will Tom and Rachel fall in love?
I love Parshall's Rachel Goddard series. The only complaint that I have is that there seems to be a whole series of life changing events for Rachel that took place between the first and this, the second, book. Someone on Facebook suggested that we need a book 1 and 1/2 to fill in the gap. I would enjoy that, but I seem to enjoy everything Parshall writes! Under the Dog Star, the fourth in the series, is on the NEW shelf in our library right now and I am thinking seriously of checking it out this week, but I may have to wait. So many books, so little time!
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