The longer Casey and Eric don't know what happened, the more danger everyone is in. When a body is discovered, well-hidden with evidence of foul play, Casey and Eric must find out what happened to the dead woman, and locate those still missing. When two of the town's construction crew members break it and go missing, Casey and Eric are called in ahead of schedule to track them down. There's only one rule in Haven's Rock: stay out of the forest. This time around, they get to decide which applicants are approved for residency. But greed and deception led the couple to financing a new refuge for those in need. They met in the original town of Rockton. Haven's Rock isn't the first town of this kind, something detective Casey Duncan and her husband, Sheriff Eric Dalton, know first-hand. A place for people to disappear, a fresh start from a life on the run. with a few new dangers that threaten everything before it even begins.ĭeep in the Yukon wilderness, a town is being built. Murder at Haven's Rock is a spinoff, a fresh start. RT KelleyArmstrong: Havens Rock 2 has a cover & a title No synopsis yet, but basically, the new version of Rockton allows families & I continue to make my characters regret all their well-intentioned choices. New York Times bestselling author Kelley Armstrong's Rockton Novels had one of the most unique towns in crime fiction.
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