Sky above. Earth below. Trees around. Evil within.

With two members of the Violent Crimes Unit just out of the hospital and another still recovering, things are finally beginning to settle—except for Special Agent Emma Last. Her disturbing dreams of the Other are growing more vivid, and now a desperate fortune teller from a past case arrives on her doorstep. The woman’s estranged husband took their ten-year-old camping, and they haven’t been heard from in five days.

Are they lost? Or has the boy been abducted by his own father?

As Emma and her team investigate, they uncover something far more disturbing than a routine missing persons case. Four other hikers have recently vanished without a trace— until a severed foot is discovered, stark evidence of something far more sinister lurking in the wilderness.

As they navigate the fifteen thousand acres of unforgiving wilderness, they encounter deadly traps hidden along the trails, meticulously designed to kill. This isn’t just a man gone rogue—this is a predator, and he’s hunting them.

The deeper they push into the woods, the more dangerous their mission becomes. There’s a madman on the loose, and if they’re not careful, they’ll become his dinner.

Last Trace, the eleventh book in the Emma Last series by bestselling author Mary Stone, will redefine the concept of a hunger for revenge.