The protagonist. The narrative toggles between "Tessie" in 1995 (during therapy and trial) and "Tessa" in the present. Charlie: Tessa's observant teenage daughter.
Nearly twenty years later, Tessa is an artist and single mother. Her life is upended when she finds a freshly planted patch of black-eyed susans outside her window—blooming in the dead of winter. Terrified that the real killer is still at large and has found her, Tessa must confront her suppressed memories to stop the execution of an innocent man and save herself from a monster who has returned to his "garden". Las Flores Que Vieron Las Sombras Julia Heaberl...
A DNA expert specializing in identifying degraded bones. The protagonist
The protagonist. The narrative toggles between "Tessie" in 1995 (during therapy and trial) and "Tessa" in the present. Charlie: Tessa's observant teenage daughter.
Nearly twenty years later, Tessa is an artist and single mother. Her life is upended when she finds a freshly planted patch of black-eyed susans outside her window—blooming in the dead of winter. Terrified that the real killer is still at large and has found her, Tessa must confront her suppressed memories to stop the execution of an innocent man and save herself from a monster who has returned to his "garden".
A DNA expert specializing in identifying degraded bones.