Through the award-winning author of The Lake of Dead Languages comes a “gripping go through with emotion-charged twists and turns” (Tess Gerritsen) in regards to a professor accused of killing her student inside a hit-and-run accident.

Nan Lewis-a creative composing teacher at a school in upstate New York-is driving house from a faculty vacation party when she hits a deer. Yet when she gets out of her car to consider it, the deer is gone. Eager to get home before the oncoming snowstorm, Nan can be forced to keep about River Road: A Book her car at the bottom of her snowy driveway to hold back out the longest nights the season…

The next morning hours, Nan is woken up with a police officer at her door with terrible news-one of her students, Leia Dawson, was killed within a hit-and-run on River Street the night time before, and due to the damage to her car, Nan is a suspect. In the days following the accident, Nan finds herself shunned from the same community that rallied around her when her very own daughter was wiped out in an eerily related incident six years prior. When Nan begins finding disturbing tokens that recall the her daughter’s death, Nan suspects that the two accidents are connected.

As she digs additional, she discovers that everyone around her, including Leia, has been hiding secrets. But can she uncover them, very clear her name, and figure out who really wiped out Leia before her life is destroyed permanently?