During the summer of 1946, three children play a kissing game behind a general store in rural Georgia. Kids having fun until one innocent kiss leads to the brutal beating death of a ten-year-old boy. The hate crime spawns a series of murders, and a secret that is hidden for generations. Mike Latta follows the story back into the heat and humidity of a seventy-year-old Georgia summer, back to dirt roads, wooden bridges, and muddy-water fishing holes, back to a single kiss that has killed, and killed again. The kiss has slept for decades, but now it’s awake. Deadly Kiss is the story of loves that don’t stay lost and ghosts that just won’t sleep. Bob Bickford is the author of eleven novels, including Caves in the Rain and A Song for Chloe , books one and three in The Hollow Lake Series. He has spent his life haunting various corners of the United States and Canada. bobbickfordauthor.com “...although he would have you believe he prefers toughing it out with devils in murky back alleys...Bob Bickford dances with angels.” —Joanna Kafarowski, author of The Polar Adventures of a Rich American Dame “...the past is closer than you think.” —Nyla Matuk, author of Strange