When her mother disappears during a business trip, seventeen-year-old Anne discovers that her family harbors many dark secrets.

The exciting conclusion to the award-winning Torn series… Brooke Madison was a kid born on the wrong side of a corrupt town, unable to read and terrified to close his eyes at night. Now Brooke is a rising star in the FBI--a profiler who can look at a crime scene and see into the souls of murderers. Prolific serial killer Edward Hunter has operated in the shadows for decades, with the help of some powerful friends. But now he’s been exposed, and it’s Brooke’s job to go back to Ember Falls and uncover all of Hunter’s secrets. That means talking to an emotionally scarred nine-year-old Cole Duncan, Hunter’s former stepson, who is under the care of Lilly Danvers, the woman Brooke never got over. Everyone says Hunter is on the run, but Brooke believes in the end, he’ll return for the stepson he once controlled.

Giuseppe Fornari’s groundbreaking inquiry shows that Friedrich Nietzsche’s neglected importance as a religious thinker and his “untimeliness” place him at the forefront of modern thought. Capable of exploiting his own failures as a cognitive tool to discover what other philosophers never wanted to see, Nietzsche ultimately drove himself to mental collapse. Fornari analyzes the tragic reports of Nietzsche’s madness and seeks out the cause of this self-destructive destiny, which, he argues, began earlier than his rivalry with the composer and polemicist Richard Wagner, dating back to the premature loss of Nietzsche’s father. Dramatic experience enabled Nietzsche to detect a more general tendency of European culture, leading to his archaeological and prophetic discovery of the death of God, which he understood as a primordial assassination from which all humankind took its origin. Fornari concludes that Nietzsche’s fatal rebellion against a Christian awareness, which he identified as the greatest threat to his plan, led him to become one and the same not only with Dionysus but also with the crucified Christ. His effort, Fornari argues, was a dramatic way to recognize the silent, inner meaning of Christ’s figure, and perhaps to be forgiven.