In book eleven of Paul Doiron's USA-Today bestselling series, the sudden disappearance of Mike Bowditch’s friend and mentor reveals a startling connection to a fifteen-year-old cold case.

“Never trust a man without secrets.”

These are the last words retired game warden Charley Stevens speaks to his surrogate son, Warden Investigator Mike Bowditch, before the old man vanishes without explanation into a thousand miles of forest along the Canadian border.

Mike suspects his friend’s sudden disappearance has to do with an antique badge found at a flea market—a badge that belonged to a game warden who was presumed dead fifteen years ago but whose body was never recovered. 

On a mission to find Charley before he meets a similarly dark fate, Mike must reopen a cold case that powerful people, including his fellow wardens—one of whom might be a killer—will do anything to keep closed.