Detective Joel ‘Joe’ Manchester sat in the car outside of the San Diego Police Department. He reached over and picked up the packet of material lying on the seat next to him. He worked on missing persons cases for the Federal Bureau of Investigations, better known as the FBI. He had just closed one that had scared the s**t out of him and made him question everything that he thought he understood about the world around him.
He glanced down at the image of the young girl from Georgia. Melina Franklin had reappeared just as mysteriously as she disappeared. He had received a flag that she had returned and went to find out what happened. What he discovered had not only shocked the s**t out of him, but scared the hell out of him as well. He thought back to just a few days ago when he sat in the
