Summary

"Something terrible has happened in the snowbound village of Kingdom Come, Wyoming. Twelve eerily identical houses stand dark and abandoned; meals remain untouched on dining room tables; cars are still parked in garages; the human occupants have vanished, seemingly into thin air. This is the unsettling place where Maura Isles finds herself trapped during a snowstorm. In Wyoming to attend a conference, she has joined a fellow pathologist and his friends on a drive to a backwoods ski lodge. When a wrong turn leaves their Jeep stranded in deep snow, they stumble down a private road into the valley of Kingdom Come, where they take shelter - and disappear. Days later, Jane Rizzoli, her husband Gabriel, and Father Daniel Brophy fly to Wyoming to search for their missing friend. But when police find a crashed vehicle with four badly burned bodies still inside - and Maura's suitcase - authorities assume that the dead woman is Maura, and that her death was accidental. But was it?"