Cold as Hell: A Haven's Rock Novel [Paperback]

New York Timesbestselling author Kelley Armstrong returns to Havens Rock inCold as Hellas Casey Duncan hunts down a dangerous killer during a deadly blizzard.

Havens Rock is a sanctuary town hidden deep in the Yukon for those who need to disappear from the regular world. Detective Casey Duncan and her husband, Sheriff Eric Dalton, are starting a family now that theyve settled into their life here. As Casey nears the end of her pregnancy, she lets nothing, including her worried husband, stop her from investigating what happens in the forbidden forest outside the town of Havens Rock.

When one of the town's residents is drugged and wanders too close to the edge of town, shes dragged into the woods kicking and screaming. Shes saved in the nick of time, but the women of the town are alarmed. Casey and Eric investigate the assault just as a snowstorm hits Havens Rock, covering the forest. Its there they find a frozen body, naked in the snow. With mixed accounts of the woman's last movements, the two begin to question who they can trustand who they can'tin their seemingly safe haven.

KELLEY ARMSTRONG is the author of over 50 novels in mystery, fantasy and horror. She believes experience is the best teacher, though shes been told this shouldnt apply to writing her murder scenes. To craft her books, she has studied aikido, archery and fencing. She sucks at all of them. She has also crawled through very shallow cave systems and climbed half a mountain before chickening out. She was born and still lives in Canada.

Praise forCold as Hell

The wilderness surrounding Havens Rock is itself a major character in the book, and Caseys approaching due date adds urgency to the plotline. For fans of strong women protagonists and Armstrongs Rockton series, of which Havens Rock is a spin-off. Library Journal

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