{"product_id":"cold-return-jack-h-sloane-9798279059089","title":"Cold Return","description":"Jason Scream was supposed to disappear.\u003cbr\u003eAfter fleeing north, hunted by the FBI, Vermont was never part of the plan. It was just a place to pass through. Quiet. Forgettable. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThen a boy vanished. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eEvan Lark, seventeen, strange, invisible to everyone who mattered. The kind of kid people talk about only after it's too late. The official story is simple. Too simple. And Jason has learned the hard way that simple stories usually hide something rotten underneath. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAs he digs into a small town that prefers silence to truth, Jason begins to see patterns others have chosen not to notice. Men who pass through regularly. Questions no one asks. Woods that don't lie, even when people do. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eJason isn't a cop.\u003cbr\u003eHe isn't a hero.\u003cbr\u003eAnd he's done running. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eCold Return is a gritty, atmospheric thriller about disappearance, complicity, and what happens when the wrong man decides to stop walking away. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eSome pasts don't stay buried.\u003cbr\u003eThey hunt back. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eJack H. Sloane\u003c\/b\u003e writes noir and thriller fiction focused on disappearances, moral gray zones, and characters who live on the edges of society.\u003cbr\u003eHis stories explore what happens when silence becomes complicity, and when the wrong person decides to stop walking away.\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eCold Return is his debut novel.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Jack H. Sloane\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9798279059089\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Independently Published\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 12\/19\/2025\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 82\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.20lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.00h x 5.00w x 0.20d","brand":"Jack H. Sloane","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":49171240222975,"sku":"9798279059089","price":7.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/cold-return-jack-h-sloane-9798279059089","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}