The Day I Paid for My Brother's Crimes, He Came Back from the Dead

On her tenth birthday, Skylar made one phone call, begging her older brother Caleb to come home and celebrate with her. He died in a plane crash instead, and no trace of his body was ever found. From that day, her parents treated her as the cause of his death, dragging her each year to kneel before his empty grave in penance. Eight years of atonement followed, until her eighteenth birthday, when she was stalked and killed by a murderer known as The Rain Reaper.

Her father Dave, a forensic pathologist, pieces together the dismembered remains recovered by Captain Miller's team, never suspecting whose body lies on his table. The case mirrors the methods of the killer who once tampered with Caleb's plane, and Captain Miller warns Dave to keep his family indoors and protect Skylar above all. Dave's answer is chillingly flat: she should have died a long time ago.

Then Caleb, believed dead for eight years, returns with his pregnant fiancée, and learns what became of the sister who once called him home.