In the gripping new novel from the Queen of Suspense, a woman is haunted by two grisly murders separated by more than a century, yet somehow, inextricably linked…

Following a nasty divorce as well as the trauma to be stalked, criminal defense attorney Emily Graham leaves Albany to function in Manhattan. Craving origins, she purchases her ancestral house, a Victorian house in the seaside vacation resort town of Springtime Lake, NJ. Her family sold the home in 1892, after among Emily’s forebears, Madeline Shapley, a young girl, disappeared.

As the home can be renovated and a pool dug, a skeleton is found and identiWed as Martha Lawrence, a young Spring Lake female who vanished in the past. Within her hands is the Wnger bone of another woman, with a ring — a Shapley family heirloom — still onto it. Determined to Wnd the connection between your two murders, Emily becomes a threat to a seductive killer…who chooses her mainly because the next victim.