I love LOVE Kay Hooper and her Bishop/SCU books. I wish that she could give us one per month.

This novel finds Jessie Rayburn returning to her hometown, a bucolic small town. Jessie left her home fifteen years ago when she was seventeen after something happened to her, though she can't quite remember what it is. Her sister Emma, two years younger, stayed on and now runs their former home as a bed and breakfast.

Jessie works for Haven, the privately owned company that is associated with Bishop's FBI division. (For those of you who haven't read any of Kay Hooper's books, Noah Bishop and his group use their powers such as clairvoyance, empathy and medium to solve crimes.) She knows that she needs to return to her hometown and resolve her past before she can move on. Emma, meanwhile, has been having nightmares of women being brutally murdered. Thrown into the mix is Nathan Navarro, another Haven operative, whose specialty is locating dead people.

Hooper's books can be pretty grim and gory, but this one, while grim, isn't as gory as those before. I liked the characters and I was surprised at the ending.

Highly recommend.