Her ballet career derailed by injury, a once-promising young dancer
returns to her hometown only to face a grisly discovery - and the
increasingly alarming realization that nothing from her past is quite
what she believed...
When Esmé Foster left the Boston suburbs to become a professional
ballerina, the future shimmered with promise. Eleven years later, her
career has been derailed by an injury, and Esme knows it's time to come
back to Graybridge to help her brother care for their ailing father. But
her return coincides with an unthinkable crime. Kara Cunningham, one of
Esme's high school friends, is found dead in the woods behind the
Fosters' house.
Esmé is shocked and grieving, but also uneasy. In her dreams, she still
sees the man who showed up at the scene of the car accident that killed
her mother--and told Esmé he was going to kill her too. Family and
friends insisted the figure was a product of Esmé's imagination, that
she was concussed after the crash. But she and Kara looked alike,
sharing the same petite build, the same hair color. Could Kara's murder
have been a case of mistaken identity?
Detective Rita Myers is familiar with close-knit communities like
Graybridge, where, beneath the friendliness, there are whispers and
secrets. The town has seen other tragedies too, including the long-ago
drowning of a young girl in a pond, deep in the woods. Even within the
once-close circle of friends that included Kara and Esmé, Rita discerns
a ripple of mistrust.
Day by day, Esmé discovers more about the place she left behind--and the
friends and family she thought she knew. Soon, shining a light into the
darkness to learn what really happened the night Kara died is the only
way she can bring the nightmare to an end . . .
