The New York Times bestselling "master" (Stephen King) of American
thriller writing returns with an electrifying new novel about a mother
seeking to reconnect with her children after a terrible trial tears
their family apart.
Once a wife, mother, and witness to a gruesome crime, Leah Trenton was
extended a miraculous olive branch in the form of the state's protected
witness program. But for this second chance at life, Leah would have to
leave behind her Midwestern roots to the northernmost tip of Maine.
Alone and isolated along the banks of the Allagash River, she is
determined to focus on the present, on her reclaimed future, but the
demons of her past, are relentlessly chipping away at Leah's protected
hideaway.
Meanwhile, in the wake of their father's untimely death, Leah's children
are sent to stay with her, though they are desperate to return back
home. They embark on a cross country homeward journey but before they
reach, danger finds them and it is Leah who must come out of her
seclusion to search for and protect her children.
Told with the deft plotting and enthralling storytelling of a genre
master, these two captivating chase narratives will converge along the
rugged Allagash River, in the wilds of Maine, where the wills, morals,
and ingenuity of a broken family will be tested against all odds.
