From SUNDAY TIMES bestselling author Harlan Coben a heart-pounding thriller about the ties we have to our past & the lies that bind us together It's a profile like all the others on the online dating site But as NYPD Detective Kat Donovan focuses on the accompanying picture she feels her whole world explode as emotions she's ignored for decades come crashing down on her Staring back at her is her ex-fiance Jeff the man who shattered her heart 18 years ago Kat feels a spark wondering if this might be the moment when past tragedies recede & a new world opens up to her But when she reaches out to the man in the profile her reawakened hope quickly darkens into suspicion & then terror as an unspeakable conspiracy comes to light in which monsters prey upon the most vulnerable As Kat's hope for a second chance with Jeff grows more & more elusive she is consumed by an investigation that challenges her feelings about everyone she ever loved
- her former fiance her mother & even her father whose cruel murder so long ago has never been fully explained With lives on the line including her own Kat must venture deeper into the darkness than she ever has before & discover if she has the strength to survive what she finds there