There is a whole lot of plotting and darkness throughout this story, and yet it is a wonderful and adorable teen romance. I love that it is showing just what can happen when prejudice and fear run rampant and destroy lives. It’s kind of what would happen after generations and generations of people making incredibly bad decisions.

I like that although this is kind of loosely based in the Otherworld series, it’s not really part of that world. There is just something that is impossible to put down about all of her stories, and the strength of the women in her works is also completely admirable. Which comes as exactly no surprise considering I love everything I have read by Kelley Armstrong. The unusual setup and isolated location increase tension in a fast-paced entry that will keep readers guessing.I loved, loved, loved, loved, loved this novella. But the investigators can't escape the fact that members of their own tiny community have dark and potentially dangerous secrets hidden in their pasts. Duncan and Sheriff Dalton have reason to believe that this time the threat comes from outside the borders of Rockton, which serves its residents as a haven. Further exploration of the cave system leads them to discover the bodies of two women, with signs pointing to the same perpetrator.

Forced to shelter overnight in a cave, Duncan and Anders make a horrific discovery a woman thought killed has instead been held captive in a pit for more than a year. Casey Duncan and Deputy Will Anders find themselves stranded during a snow storm while trying to track down a cabin-fever stricken member of Rockton, an isolated, off-the-grid town deep in the Canadian Yukon. In Armstrong's gripping follow-up to 2016's City of the Lost, Det. When the bodies of two other women turn up, Casey and her colleagues must find out if it’s an outsider behind the killings or if the answer is more complicated than that.before another victim goes missing.Ĭasey Duncan returns in another heart-racing thriller from #1 New York Times bestselling author Kelley Armstrong. Taking shelter in a cave, they discover a former resident who’s been held captive for over a year. Now, in A Darkness Absolute, Casey and her fellow Rockton sheriff’s deputy Will chase a cabin-fevered resident into the woods, where they are stranded in a blizzard. What she didn’t expect is that Rockton comes with its own set of secrets and dangers. She knew living in Rockton meant living off-the-grid completely: no cell phones, no Internet, no mail, very little electricity, and no way of getting in or out without the town council’s approval. When experienced homicide detective Casey Duncan first moved to the secret town of Rockton, she expected a safe haven for people like her, people running from their past misdeeds and past lives.

A Darkness Absolute by Kelley Armstrong