?Alafair Burke's latest propulsive thrill-ride is a suspenseful twisty mystery about memory
friendship and secrets. A page-turner of the highest order.? -Laura Dave author of The Last
Thing He Told Me The disappearance of a young woman leaves her best friend reeling and an NYPD
homicide detective digging into her own past in this twisty mystery about the power of female
friendships. From the New York Times bestselling author of The Better Sister and The Wife. Some
pasts won't stay forgotten . . . She calls herself Hope Miller but she has no idea who she
actually is. Fifteen years ago she was found in a small New Jersey town thrown from an
overturned vehicle with no clue to her identity. Doctors assumed her amnesia was a temporary
side effect of her injuries but she never regained her memory. Hope eventually started a new
life with a new name in a new town that welcomed her yet always wondered what she may have
left behind?or been running from. Now she's leaving New Jersey to start over once again.
Manhattan defense lawyer Lindsay Kelly Hope's best friend and the one who found her after the
accident understands why Hope wants a new beginning. But she worries how her friend will fare
in her new East Hampton home far away from everything familiar. Lindsay's worst fears are
confirmed when she discovers Hope has vanished without a trace?the only lead a drop of blood
found where she was last seen. Even more ominously the blood matches a DNA sample with a
connection to a notorious Kansas murderer. With nowhere else to turn Lindsay calls NYPD
homicide detective Ellie Hatcher the daughter of the cop who dedicated his life to hunting the
Kansas killer. Ellie has always believed there was more to the story of her father's death
twenty years earlier?and she now fears that Hope's recent disappearance could be related. In
pursuit of answers the women search for the truth beneath long-buried secrets. And when their
searches converge what they find will upend everything they've ever known.
