Excerpt from Deception Cove by Owen Laukkanen, plus links to reviews, author biography & more

She stole another glance out the window. The truck hadn't moved. She squinted, looked hard, but it was too dark to see inside, look for a driver. Too dark to catch the make and the model, even. Maybe just some hunter got lost, she thought. Some kids hooking up or something.

Beside her, Lucy was still staring at the door. And Jess saw the way the dog's hackles were raised, saw the way she stood stiff, square, like she really was a guard dog, and she knew this wasn't just a couple of horny teenagers fooling around. This was something else, something worse, and though Jess wasn't sure exactly what it was, she knew Ty must have had something to do with it. Boot steps on the wooden porch interrupted that line of thinking. Heavy, slow, deliberate. Then a knock at the door, three knocks, the same measured pace. Like whoever was out there knew she was at home, knew she had nowhere to run.

Beside Jess, Lucy began to growl.

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