The footprints were etched in the snow for miles, passing through walls and crossing rivers…appearing on the other side as though no barrier could stop them.

In 1922 a farmer in Adamant, Arkansas, awakes to a noise on his roof and finds his snow-blanketed yard marked with thousands of cloven footprints. The prints vanish with the melting snow…only to reappear seventy years later near the gruesome killing of Rachel DeLaune.

Years after her sister's unsolved murder, New Orleans tattoo artist Sarah DeLaune is haunted by the mysteries of her past. Sarah has always believed that her sister was killed by a man named Ashe Cain. But no one else had ever seen Ashe. He had "appeared" to Sarah when she needed a friend the most, only to vanish on the night of her sister's murder. The past bleeds into the present when two mutilated bodies are found near Sarah's home, the crime scene desecrated by cloven footprints.

Reviews:

Faced paced and plotted with spectacular precision and guile, this is undiluted suspense at its very finest. Nervous readers should read it in full daylight."

 —Romantic Times BOOKreviews

A "taut, disturbing story."

—Romantic Times BOOKReviews on The Dollmaker

"Amanda Stevens writes creepy thrillers with a Southern drawl."

—Bestselling author Heather MacAllister

"Stevens is at her best with this one; the sickos are really sick and nothing is what it appears to be."
   

—Bestselling author Kay David