Two women. One death. Secrets exposed. For Molly Bradley and Detective Rita Myers, nothing will be the same after one frosty January night.

Half a dozen friends are cozied up in Molly's home celebrating her husband, Jay's, fortieth birthday. The atmosphere is warm and the house is filled with laughter and how could it not be, everyone loves Jay. And yet, when morning arrives, Molly is shocked to discover her husband's body lying on the office floor, his throat brutally slashed.

Detective Rita is on the case. After decades of police work with the Boston PD, she knows the faces evil wears and that sometimes, evil is unexplainable but not in Jay Bradley's case. Rita is certain someone in their close knit group killed him and that the killer was there that night.

Molly can barely comprehend her husband's death. He was her rock and the only one who understood her past horrors and what she had been hiding from their friends. But as the case unfolds and secrets are revealed, Molly cannot help question who Jay was and if someone else out there also knows about her past. And until she knows who to trust, Molly will remain the next target.

It's senior year for Stevie Bell and things at Ellingham Academy are not going well. Her boyfriend is studying overseas, her friends are preoccupied with college applications, and having already solved the crime of the century, Stevie is feeling adrift. There is nothing to distract her from the questions she hiding from - questions about love, life, and college.

Distraction from those questions comes from her boyfriend when he invites her and her friends to study abroad further enticing the invitation with a double-murder cold case. In 1995, a drunken game of hide-and-seek was played by nine Cambridge students, two found brutally axed to death in a woodshed the morning after. It is assumed their deaths were via burglary gone wrong but one of the survivors witnessed something she cannot explain and swears it wasn't a break-in that caused their deaths and that someone out there is lying.

Stevie Bell is back at it again to uncover the truth and find a killer in this new addition to the Truly Devious series, an instalment I cannot wait to read. I hope you are as excited as I am for this new adventure!

Hidden somewhere along the wild Oregon coastline is The Colony, a safe haven for women where they and their special gifts can be protected. Their aunt hoped it would be a sanctuary but it turns out nowhere is safe from a madman who has marked them all for death.

Found on a remote beach, the dead body has no name, just a note pinned to the body with Ravinia Rutledge's number and the words "next of kin," on it. As a previous member of The Colony, she knows Detective Rhodes doesn't believe her lack of involvement, it's clear he senses she is still part of The Colony despite having departed five years ago and creating a new life since. She is now a private investigator specialising in finding missing loved ones even though she knows that sometimes it's better when the missing aren't found.

The body on the beach is a sign of bigger things to come; "Good Time Charlie," from her past hadn't left, he was patiently waiting and now ready to fulfil his mission of eliminating all Siren Song women from the world. Rhodes has his own reasons for his fascination with The Colony as the home's surroundings are filled with unexplainable deaths and tragedies and although Rhodes plays by the rules, the land does not. Despite the initial suspicion, Rhodes and Ravinia decide to team up and uncover the truth and in doing so hope to protect The Colony from death by a madman's hands.