The #1 New York Times bestselling author and Queen of Suspense
launched her career with this "indescribably suspenseful" (San
Francisco Chronicle) classic thriller following a woman whose past
holds a terrible secret.
Nancy Harmon long ago fled the heartbreak of her first marriage, the
macabre deaths of her two little children, and the shocking charges
against her. She changed her name, dyed her hair, and left California
for the windswept peace of Cape Cod. Now remarried, she has two more
beloved children, and the terrible pain has begun to heal--until the
morning when she looks in the backyard for her little boy and girl and
finds only one red mitten. She knows that the nightmare is beginning
again...