In Lake Michigan’s desolate dunes, under a midnight moon, Cadie McLeod disappears. As a crackling bonfire burns to ash, the popular, gifted, and wildly beautiful Cadie waves goodbye to high school friends, leaves the beach, and enters the dark, isolated Scenic Trail. All she wants is to retrieve her bike and head home to the warmth and safety of Aunt Marie’s cottage. The young woman is nervous about the truck that parks outside late at night and the strange letter in her mailbox that read, “Don’t worry. It will all be over soon.”
Then, seconds later, like an evening breeze blowing across shifting sands, Cadie is gone. Horrifically, the 18-year-old goes missing from the dunes the same night her mom and dad were brutally murdered six years ago – their killer never caught. Thomas and Aileen were run down in brutal fashion as they walked hand in hand on deserted coastal highway M-22 along Michigan’s west coast to get ice cream. Suddenly, a car lying in wait accelerates and, at fifty miles per hour, plows into them, obliterating the happy 35-year-olds.
What follows is an engrossing mystery woven from threads of love and hate, hope and vengeance. A strong female protagonist must confront a terrifying, enigmatic villain whose actions lead to a shocking, final revelation. But how do you hunt a monster when no one knows where it came from—or why? Devil in the Dunes sweeps readers into the heart of Northern Michigan, from the serene shores of Traverse City to the windswept Sleeping Bear Sand Dunes, only to plunge them into the fury of a raging storm off North Manitou Island. In this gripping crime novel, Cadie must escape her abductor if she’s going to live and solve the mystery of her parents’ grisly deaths – murders for reasons no one could imagine.
