It’s late August, and the Driftless region is burning up from heat and lack of rain. Finally, on a humid night, the weather boils over the horizon and delivers a whopper of a thunderstorm. As the wind and rain slash the vegetation and force motorists off the road, a young clerk at a convenience gas station in Stoddard, along the Mississippi River, is brutally murdered. When Lt. Jim Higgins arrives, the perpetrator has disappeared with hardly a clue left behind. Higgins’s team races to bring the murderer to justice, if they could only find him. Is he just a shadow? Does he really exist? The drama that unfolds in the search for justice will have you on the edge of your seat.