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About Rayne McRae

The Highway of Tears series, is inspired by true events. Official reports state that nineteen girls have vanished from the Highway of Tears in British Columbia, Canada, since the first young victim disappeared in 1969 from a motel bar at Williams Lake. Jack Malchenko, a retired detective with the Royal Canadian Mounted Police in Prince Rupert, believes the total could be over one hundred. It drives Jack to keep searching the secluded logging trails for any evidence that might help give closure to the families, who have lost their loved ones. With growing health concerns and loving pressure from his wife, Angela, who wants to spend their golden years together without police work getting in the way, Jack finally agrees to turn over all of his files to his old partner, Sam. Everything changes though when Rayne McRae, a beautiful high school girl from the Moricetown Reserve, goes missing and her life is put up for a live online auction. The public cannot turn away from this sensational crime as they vote for her salvation. They fixate on Rayne's coral-green eyes, along with the tantalizing video feed, as Rayne struggles for dignity. As her life hangs in the balance, many from around the world, want to see her death. As Jack is pulled into this new mystery, a Cease and Desist order arrives from his former station, warning him not to investigate anything else highway-related. With his future and marriage on the line, Jack knows that if he wants to catch the killer, he will have to trust his estranged father, Taima White Elk of the Kyuquot band for help. Fearing that Taima will only let him down again, Jack struggles with a decision, until realizing there are hidden clues in the disturbing video of Rayne's murder auction. They all connect back to the case he barely survived; Willie Pickton’s farm, the most notorious serial killer in Canada’s history. Jack's past nightmares were haunting him again.