Told from two different perspectives, Leah and her brother Jake, this suspense novel tells about when a forty-two-year-old married park ranger and mother of two grown children goes missing during the suitcase killer spree; everyone believes the serial killer is at fault. A serial killer known to decapitate and dismember his victims, stuffing most of the body parts in a suitcase but leaving the head or a limb around town to frighten unsuspecting passersby. However, unbeknownst to nearly everyone is the fact that over twenty years prior, it was the park ranger who gave birth and abandoned her offspring to an unknown fate. Has destiny caught up with everyone involved, or is there a serial killer in the north country woods?

From the authors of Lake of Secrets and Dancing Without Music comes a fast-paced, riveting psychological cat-and-mouse thriller where two young women and their brothers embark on a desperate search for their missing mother and uncover a twisted web of lies. After Leah and Jake’s mother vanish, their father is presumed guilty, but no proof or witnesses remain. There is only doubt for them and their long-lost siblings, none of whom wish to spend the summer searching the woods for what goriness lies there. A police investigation ensues, and the suburbs and the north country vacationland become embroiled in one of the most shocking and perplexing missing person cases. Then there are their mother’s last days, which continue haunting them: the tragedy that connects them and the terrible reckoning that will decide their fates. Its underlying story is about risking everything for the dream of a perfect family—and whether it’s possible to leave the past behind.