THE BRAND NEW York Times bestselling author of Promise Never to Tell returns with a simmering literary thriller about ghostly secrets, dark choices, as well as the unbreakable bond between mothers and daughters . sometimes too unbreakable.

Western world Hall, Vermont, has always been a city of strange disappearances and aged legends. Probably the most inexplicable is usually that of Sara Harrison Shea, who, in 1908, was found lifeless in the field behind her house just months following the tragic loss of life of her daughter, Gertie. Today, about The Winter People: A Novel in present day, nineteen-year-old Ruthie lives in Sara’s farmhouse with her mother, Alice, and her younger sister, Fawn. Alice has often insisted that they live off the grid, a choice that suddenly proves perilous when Ruthie wakes up one morning hours to discover that Alice has vanished without a trace. Searching for clues, she is startled to discover a copy of Sara Harrison Shea’s diary hidden beneath the floorboards of her mother’s bedroom. As Ruthie gets sucked deeper in to the mystery of Sara’s fate, she discovers that she’s not really the only person who’s desperately looking for someone that they’ve lost. But she may be the only one who can quit history from duplicating itself.