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After a young girl, Zena, turns up dead, Detective Jackson discovers she recently fled from a mysterious cult in fear for her life. But the physical and psychological walls around the anti-technology group derail his investigation. So do the lies told by the victim's boyfriend and his protective mother. Meanwhile, pressure builds as a ruthless criminal takes aim at police officers. As the whole department frantically searches for the cop killer, the taskforce members are pulled into a dangerous standoff with armed traffickers. Needing more help with his case, Jackson recruits Agent Dallas to go undercover. She infiltrates the secluded cult and soon discovers a bizarre form of child abuse. To document the evidence and bring down the egomaniacal leader, Dallas takes a risk that puts her life in danger. Jackson's concern for the kids behind the compound wall also reaches the point of alarm. Determined to find out what really happened to Zena, he pushes the boundaries to break through the gate. But is he in time to save everyone?

When a victim with no ID is found murdered, Detective Jackson believes it’s another hate crime. He rounds up members of a local white nationalist group, but his task force doesn’t have enough evidence to hold them.Soon after, another woman dies of what looks like a possible suicide. Yet a witness claims the victim had argued with her estranged husband right before. The team has to split up to investigate both deaths, and the detectives are pushed to their limits. When they finally identify the first victim and a reporter reveals a shocking detail about the second, Jackson realizes the crimes are connected. But without any solid evidence, he has to extract a high-stakes confession from a suspect with everything to lose.

The investigation revolves around a woman's murder linked to her food product, with Detective Jackson facing personal turmoil as his brother is hospitalized. As the case unfolds, a Peeping Tom neighbor emerges as a suspect, but the discovery of a second strangled victim raises fears of a serial killer. The plot thickens when connections to Jackson's brother, who dated both women, come to light. With the sudden disappearance of another young woman, the task force races against time to uncover hidden motives and secrets before it's too late.

Roxanne MacFarlane, a former CIA agent known as the Extractor, faces a daunting mission to rescue a troubled teen named Josh from a perilous correctional wilderness camp. As she investigates, another boy goes missing, raising suspicions about the camp's owner and its true nature. With escalating danger, including the murder of Josh's mother, Roxanne races against time to uncover the truth and save both boys from a deadly secret that could cost them their lives.

When a young mother is found murdered in a derelict Eugene neighborhood--and her terrified young son is discovered hiding beneath the floorboards--Detective Jackson reluctantly takes the case. His own life is already in chaos, with his runaway teenage daughter, Katie, still gone and his girlfriend, Kera, facing her own family crisis. Matters get more complicated when the orphaned boy bonds with Jackson, triggering unexpected emotions and compromising his ability to investigate. Meanwhile, Detective Evans, one of Jackson's most valuable colleagues, is pulled off the case to look into the death of a University of Oregon football star--leaving the homicide task force shorthanded. As Jackson works to solve the murder and find a home for little Benjie, he soon faces devastating choices that threaten everything he holds dear.

Als Krankenschwester und Jugendbeauftragte hat Kera Kollmorgan schon viele Abtreibungsgegner erlebt. Nach einer Bombenexplosion an ihrer Klinik wird eine junge Patientin ermordet in einem Müllcontainer aufgefunden. Detective Wade Jackson, alleinerziehender Vater einer Tochter, ist mit den Ermittlungen beauftragt. Er kennt die lüsterne Welt, die junge Frauen bedroht, doch hätte er nie damit gerechnet, dass er auf einen jugendlichen Bibelkreis und hochrangige Politiker stoßen würde. Während sich Wades Verbrecherjagd zuspitzt, wird Kera zur Zielscheibe eines Fanatikers. Die Situation schweißt Wade und Kera zusammen, doch eine Welt aus Rache, Sexspielen und Obsessionen droht sie zu trennen.

Als die junge Sozialarbeiterin Raina Hughes an die Tür eines maroden Trailers am Stadtrand von Eugene klopft, ist sie fest entschlossen, einen kleinen Jungen vor seinen gewalttätigen Eltern zu retten. Als Detective Wade Jackson wenige Stunden später dort eintrifft, ist er ebenfalls fest entschlossen, doch diesmal geht es darum, Rainas Mörder zu finden. Der brutale Mord an der jungen Frau schockiert das verschlafene Eugene im Bundesstaat Oregon – aber es kommt noch schlimmer: einer von Jacksons Kollegen vermutet dahinter die Tat eines Serienvergewaltigers, dessen Wut eskaliert. Jackson geht von einem wasserdichten Fall gegen den methabhängigen Vater aus, der Raina gedroht hatte, doch die Beweislage scheint den Verdächtigen mehr und mehr zu entlasten – und auf einen mordlustigen Triebtäter hinzudeuten. Insgeheim fürchtet Jackson, dass seine noch ganz frische Liebesbeziehung mit der Krankenschwester Kera Kollmorgan ihn zu sehr von seiner Arbeit ablenken könnte. Ganz überraschend findet er in der pfiffigen Reporterin Sophie Speranza, die möglicherweise über ein schreckliches Motiv gestolpert ist, eine Verbündete. Doch während Jackson und Sophie sich zusammentun, um die Schlinge zuzuziehen, umkreist der Täter schon sein nächstes Opfer – bereit, sein perverses Spiel weiter auf die Spitze zu treiben.

Ten years ago, Hector Vargas confessed to the cold-blooded murder of Detective Wade Jackson's parents. Now, facing his own death, Vargas has reached out from prison to declare his innocence. Armed with the shocking new truth that dirty cops railroaded Vargas, Jackson must revisit the painful past to get justice for his parents ? and jail the ruthless killer. Meanwhile, Gina Stahl awakens from a two-year coma with a chilling message on her lips: He tried to kill me. Now Detective Lara Evans must probe the young woman's desperate claim that her near death was not failed suicide, but attempted murder. As their investigations intersect, Jackson tangles with his estranged brother, hunts a loan shark turned philanthropist, and confronts his parents? long-buried secrets, while Evans contends with a relentless reporter, shadows a fellow cop with a dangerous reputation, and struggles with her feelings for Jackson. But the more dark revelations they make, the deadlier the resistance they face from a killer terrified of losing everything?and willing to stop at nothing.

The scene is a bloodbath: Jared and Carla Walker lie brutally bludgeoned and stabbed to death, along with their young son, while their teenage daughter barely clings to life. Detective Wade Jackson's boss believes a gang of carjackers has graduated to home invasion...and homicide. But there are other suspects in the mix: a bitter brother-in-law convinced the Walkers ripped him off big-time, a young heroin addict in forbidden love with the Walker's daughter, and the shady former employer who was being blackmailed by Jared Walker. Still, with only inconclusive forensic evidence and a sole survivor who can't remember anything, Jackson and his team are getting nowhere fast. And so is Jackson's personal life--as he duels over money with his alcoholic ex, struggles to raise his teenage daughter, and fights to keep his high-pressure job from destroying his new romance. Add the looming specter of departmental downsizing, and things couldn't possibly get worse. At least until the only living witness to the massacre vanishes--along with the shocking truth buried in her mind--and the killer follows in hot pursuit.