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Det. Roland March is a homicide cop on his way out. But when he's the only one at a crime scene to find evidence of a missing female victim, he's given one last chance to prove himself. Before he can crack the case, he's transferred to a new one that has grabbed the spotlight - the disappearance of a famous Houston evangelist's teen daughter. With the help of a youth pastor with a guilty conscience who navigates the world of church and faith, March is determined to find the missing girl while proving he's still one of Houston's best detectives.

J. Mark Bertrand is the author of Rethinking Worldview: Learning to Think, Live, and Speak in this World and Beguiled, co-written with Deeanne Gist. He has a BA in English from Union University and an MFA in creative writing from the University of Houston where he worked as a production editor of the literary magazine Gulf Coast. He teaches on the faculty of Worldview Academy, an academic summer camp for teens. After living in Houston for fifteen years, Mark and his wife, Laurie, now reside in Sioux Falls, South Dakota.