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 and the trauma of being stalked, criminal defense attorney Emily Graham leaves Albany to work in Manhattan. Craving roots, she buys her ancestral home, a Victorian house in the seaside resort town of Spring Lake, New Jersey. Her family sold the house in 1892, after one of Emily's forebears, Madeline Shapley, then a young girl, disappeared. As the house is renovated and a pool dug, a skeleton is found and identity Wed as Martha Lawrence, a young Spring Lake woman who vanished several years ago. Within her hand is the Winger bone of another woman, with a ring — a Shapley family heirloom — still on it. Determined to Wind the connection between the two murders, Emily becomes a threat to a seductive killer... who chooses her as the next victim.