AMAZON #1 BESTSELLER * Scott Blade is back with an electrifying, intense follow-up to the pulsating, action-mystery The Last Rainmaker with the next Widow thriller--a story that hits the ground running and doesn't let up until the last violent showdown.

Star Harvard is beautiful. She's smart. She's tough. She's all alone. She's nine months pregnant. And she's in grave danger.

Deadly trouble waits...and Jack Widow steps right into it. His first misstep is a curiosity, triggered by a gothic headstone, a grave, unmarked and unexplained, right in the middle of a shadowy New Hampshire town.  Looking for answers, Widow meets Harvard, who is more out of place than he is. She's a woman in distress, pregnant, alone, and unwilling to give up. Now she faces a secluded community that could turn hostile at any second.  All she wants is to find the father of her unborn child, her missing husband, a Navy SEAL, who was supposed to be KIA in Iraq, only according to Harvard's hired PI, her husband never made it to Iraq. The PI tracked his last known location to the wilderness of New Hampshire.  Alone, surrounded by danger and afraid her husband is dead, Jack Widow is her only hope. A Cold Dry Place is an explosive, haunting thriller that only Scott Blade could write and only Jack Widow could survive--a first-rate page-turner that will leave you breathless.