THE HUNTED GIRLS

Stumbling through the pitch-black forest, twigs scratching her bare feet, she sobs as she imagines her children crying for their mommy. By now, everyone will know she is missing. Please, please let me find the way home. Before he comes back.

As Agent Nadine Finch rushes to investigate the murder of newlywed Nikki Darnell in Ocala National Forest, Florida, fear floods her body. She swore she'd never set foot there again, not since the case 15 years ago which tore her life apart. But taking in the triangular cuts scarring Nikki's perfect pale skin, she knows she must put her own traumatic past aside to find justice for Nikki and her inconsolable husband. Discovering water in Nikki's lungs and certain the triangular wounds were made by arrowheads, Nadine must convince her team of her terrifying theory: that Nikki was hunted down and drowned before being left for them to find. But what monster would do such a thing? And why? Then, another woman, a mother of two, is discovered in the woods, with tell-tale arrow marks all over her body. Recognizing her as a local waitress, Nadine has just traced the arrow heads to an outdoors store when her own partner disappears, and she receives a chilling note: "Three little birds. So pretty in their cages. I caught them all for you." Now the rules of this twisted game are terrifyingly clear. A killer obsessed with the case in Nadine's past is closing in, targeting a stranger; then an acquaintance; then someone close to her. Will she need to sacrifice herself to save one of her own? And can she stop this deadly hunter before more innocent lives are taken? Jaw-dropping and packed with twists and turns. Fans of Robert Dugoni, Lisa Gardner, and Rachel Caine will be totally addicted to THE HUNTED GIRLS. Publishers Weekly bestselling author Jenna Kernan penned more than thirty-five books of romantic suspense and historical romance before turning to suspense. Her new gripping crime thrillers feature a criminal psychologist, and daughter of an infamous female serial killer, facing a series of murders in Florida. Jenna is a member of International Thriller Writers, Mystery Writers of America, Sisters in Crime and Novelists, Inc. A natural redhead now living in the Sunshine State, she has increased her sunblock to SPF 50. Visit Jenna at www.jennakernan.com. Find Jenna on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/jennakernanofficial/, Twitter @jennakernan, Instagram Jenna_Kernan and on BookBub at jenna-kernan.