Third Degree

In the span of twenty-four hours, everything Laurel Shields believes about her life and her marriage to a prominent doctor in an idyllic Mississippi town will be shattered-if she survives a terrifying ordeal. The day begins with the jarring discovery that, soon after ending an affair, Laurel is pregnant.... But when she returns home to find her husband, Warren, ashen, unkempt, and on the brink of violence, a nightmare quickly unfolds-and Laurel is locked in an emotional and potentially deadly standoff. Then their two children are swept into the drama-and with their suburban home surrounded by armed men, Laurel realizes with white-hot terror that her dark secrets are the explosive spark to a lethal powder keg of rage and destruction.