First published 2002
Anna North has spent twenty-three years rebuilding her life in New Orleans after a terrifying abduction. She survived an encounter with a psychopath who took her and then disappeared without a trace. Now she lives quietly, trying to forget what happened to her as a young woman. But the past refuses to stay buried. Threatening letters begin arriving at her door. A close friend vanishes without explanation. Then a grotesque murder shakes the city. The crime bears disturbing similarities to her own ordeal decades earlier. Anna realizes her tormentor may have returned to finish what he started. She must face the nightmare she thought she had escaped forever. The quiet life she built crumbles as old terrors resurface and new dangers emerge.
Genres: suspense, mystery, crime, psychological-thriller
Vibes: dark, emotional, fast-paced, suspenseful
Tropes: enemies-to-lovers, unreliable-narrator
Setting: New Orleans
Period: 20th-century, 21st-century
474 pages · Paperback · Wheeler Pub Inc
Content warnings: kidnapping, murder, violence