When Sloan McCandless tangles with an EF-5, the result is a supermodel face and brain damage. Can she trade a songwriting career for crime solving?
When Sloan McCandless flips her Mustang in a deadly storm, she awakens with a supermodel face and brain damage. Leaving her songwriting career behind, she sets out to find answers to questions no one wants to talk about. For one, why did the surgeon all but erase her African features and turn her into a Barbie doll? When Sheriff Hank Overton, her old lover, drafts her to work a murder case, Sloan dares to hope Hank can help her solve the puzzle.
But the murder case plunges Sloan deep into a strangely dark, backwoods community full of fear and prejudice, drawing her into the lives of everyone involved, including the murder victim's husband, who happens to be Hank's best friend. Even as Hank begins to suspect his old buddy has committed homicide, Sloan puts her life on the line to discover the truth, not only about the suspect, Lyle Lofton, but about the stranger in the mirror. She falls headlong into the life of a crime investigator; however, she can’t outrun the long shadow of her own history steeped in the dirty secrets of two small towns halfway across the globe from each other.