First published 2013
Dr. Nadine Lavoie works in the psychiatric ward where she excels at helping broken families heal. She pushes down her own claustrophobia and avoids thinking about the missing pieces of her childhood. Her daughter Lisa has lived on the streets for seven years as a runaway. When Heather Simeon arrives after attempting suicide, Nadine draws out her patient's story and discovers disturbing connections to her own experience. The case forces Nadine to examine her traumatic past on a Vancouver Island commune led by Aaron Quinn. Something terrible happened there that destroyed her family and left gaps in her memory. The name Aaron Quinn still fills her with terror. As Nadine digs deeper into both cases, she realizes the danger from her past has followed her into the present. She must confront the trauma she has spent years avoiding and fight back against the threat that now endangers her current life.
Genres: suspense, mystery, contemporary, psychological-thriller
Vibes: dark, emotional, intimate, suspenseful, thought-provoking
Tropes: family-secrets, repressed-memories, unreliable-narrator
Setting: Vancouver Island
342 pages · Hardcover · St. Martin's Press
Content warnings: abuse, mental-illness, suicide