Lost souls : a Cainsville novella
(Book)

"The disappearing hitchhiker is one of the hoariest urban legends, and no one knows than better than Gabriel Walsh, a lawyer who grew up on folklore and myth. When Patrick--author of books on the supernatural--brings him the case of a hitchhiking woman in white who vanished on a country road after accepting a ride from a businessman, Gabriel knows the Cainsville elder is just trying to wheedle into his good graces. But Gabriel is a man in need of a mystery, one that will get him back into someone else's good graces. His investigator, Olivia Taylor-Jones, has blown town supposedly on a simple vacation. But when she left there was a rift between them and--he misses her"--Amazon.com.