Evil Magician, Reznik the Magnificent, returns... In Quiet Fury, the 6th Promise McNeal mystery, retired psychologist and Atlanta transplant to the North Carolina Mountains, Dr. Promise McNeal, frequently looks over her shoulder since the suspected killer and circus magician, Reznik, whispered he'd be waiting for her and then disappeared. Promise isn't sure what Reznik meant, but her sixth-sense screams danger if Reznik still thinks she holds a secret he desperately wants. Now, months after Reznik's disappearance, security cameras in the shadowy, underground corridors of Asheville's two-hundred-and-fifty-room Biltmore Mansion catch Reznik on video. He's back! As Promise learns of Reznik's return and investigates mysterious papers found in a book she bought at auction, she worries about her son, Luke, a federal undercover agent who isn't answering his phone. Desperate to locate Luke, Promise swallows her pride and asks Luke's father, her ex-husband and GBI agent R.B. Barnes, for help. But R.B. won't share what he knows. That leaves Promise with no clues to find Luke, other than an improbable dream of him repelling into caves cut into a barren, white, mountain populated by monkeys, and her nagging feeling that a part of her dream is actually true. Meanwhile, Promise's husband, Sheriff Daniel Allen, is on the search to find Reznik before Reznik finds Promise, but he has troubles of his own. A man who Promise's neighbor, the eccentric Fletcher Enloe, would say "needed killing" is murdered, and then another man is seen setting fires on the mountainside. And, as if that weren't enough to make Daniel wish he'd thought twice about running for sheriff, an unidentified body is discovered in a shallow grave on Forest Service land, and Daniel is certain the Forest Ranger is hiding something when he insists he knows nothing about the dead man. While Promise is determined to find Luke and help Daniel solve the puzzle of who buried an old man in a shallow grave, and who killed one of Perry County's least honorable citizens, Reznik plays puppet master to a strange girl sent to steal the secret Promise doesn't know she possesses. And every day, the mountain winter marches closer bringing snow and freezing temperatures, until the girl, the secret, and Reznik converge, and Promise is caught between a stalker, desperate to learn her secret, and the restless spirits of Fire Mountain as they awake to protect what's theirs.