Into the Cold: Ellie Kline Locke Files (Ellie Kline Mystery Series Book 16)

Some partnerships begin with a handshake. Theirs begins with an armed drone.

Three years after losing her right arm in the line of duty, FBI Special Agent Karsen Locke has fought her way back into the FBI. But instead of chasing suspects, she reviews other agents’ investigations and hands her discoveries back for someone else to finish.

Detective Ellie Kline has spent years hunting Charleston’s most dangerous killers. Now married to FBI agent Clay Lockwood and raising the daughter she once risked everything to save, she’s built a life worth protecting.

One terrifying afternoon brings them together.

While walking the boundary of the Johns Island farm she recently inherited, Karsen witnesses a man running across the neighboring pasture. An armed drone follows above him.

He’s dead a moment later.

When the drone turns on Karsen, she escapes into the woods and runs straight into the path of Ellie’s car. A second drone joins the hunt, their route to safety disappears, and neither woman knows who wants them dead...or why.

To survive, Karsen and Ellie must trust each other before the killers circling above them get another clear shot.

Into the Cold is the gripping prequel that introduces FBI Special Agent Karsen Locke and launches a new chapter in the Ellie Kline universe from bestselling author Mary Stone. Fast-paced and emotionally charged, this is where Karsen and Ellie’s partnership is forged.