Maiden Rock

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Pepin County, Wisconsin, has its share of trouble, and deputy sheriff Claire Watkins has seen enough of it. But it strikes closer to home when her teenage daughter, Meg, doesn't come home after a Halloween party...and Meg's best friend, Krista, is found dead at the bottom of a high limestone ledge called Maiden Rock.

While not ruling out the possibility of suicide, Claire soon uncovers the darker side to young Krista's last night alive: methamphetamines, an encroaching menace for even the most innocent of small towns. Grimly determined to push back the malevolent subculture of manufacturing and distributing illegal drugs, Claire tracks the fateful path Krista's life took in her final hours--confronting the twisted and tragic faces of the lost, the desperate...and the deadly dangerous.