Cold Hard News

Bernadette "Bernie" O'Dea, editor of the Peaks Weekly Watcher, can finally get back on track as a

journalist after a melting snowbank in Redimere, Maine, reveals a body. But as spring turns into a long,

hot, explosive and tragic summer, the town is ripped in half. What started out as a sad story about a

mysterious death becomes something way too big for Bernie to handle. As the town's secrets emerge,

Bernie realizes she's on a path that could cost her-and others-their lives.