From the award-winning author of The Lake of Dead Languages comes a
chilling new psychological thriller about a professor accused of killing
her favorite student in a hit-and-run accident.
Nan Lewis--a creative writing professor at a state university in upstate
New York--is driving home from a faculty holiday party after finding out
she's been denied tenure. On her way, she hits a deer, but when she gets
out of her car to look for it, the deer is nowhere to be found. Eager to
get home and out of the oncoming snowstorm, Nan is forced to leave her
car at the bottom of her snowy driveway to wait out the longest night of
the year--and the lowest point of her life...
The next morning, Nan is woken up by a police officer at her door with
terrible news--one of her students, Leia Dawson, was killed in a
hit-and-run on River Road the night before. And because of the damage to
her car, Nan is a suspect. In the days following the accident, Nan finds
herself shunned by the same community that rallied around her when her
own daughter was killed in an eerily similar accident six years prior.
When Nan begins finding disturbing tokens that recall the death of Nan's
own daughter, Nan suspects that the two accidents are connected.
As she begins to dig further, she discovers that everyone around her,
including Leia, is hiding secrets. But can she uncover them, clear her
name, and figure out who really killed Leia before her reputation is
destroyed for good?
