Marlys Millhiser

In 1980 Colorado, Aletha Kingman comes to the ski resort of Telluride to find refuge from a shadowed life....

On the eve of her wedding in 1978, Shay Garrett peers into the antique mirror in her family's longtime home....

Leah Harper leaves Chicago and various tragedies behind and heads west. With the Colorado Rockies in sight, she takes refuge in a cabin where an ominous figure surprises her, warning, "Turn on the light and you’re dead"....

Charlie Greene gets a call from her mom, Edwina, a biologist advising on the set of a nature documentary film in the Utah desert. Edwina is the prime suspect in a murder....

Charlie has reluctantly returned to her childhood home of Boulder, Colorado, to be with her mother, who just had major surgery. Boulder evokes decidedly mixed feelings in Charlie....

When Gloria, the loathed office receptionist, is found dead - and Charlie admits to being the first person to talk to the victim after the murder - there's no turning back....

Charlie is accused of murdering an elderly woman whose bicycle is mysteriously found beneath the wheels of Charlie's car....