What happens next is a frightening rollercoaster ride that builds up to a soul-shattering climax that will leave the reader checking the locks on their doors and windows. Unnerved, Rebecca spills the whole frightening account of the abduction to her ex-husband and friend, Michael, who, dismayed by the story, vows to help sort out the mysterious texts and disturbing series of paintings. How could Franny know? Is it a ghostly warning of some kind? Rebecca, with increasing dread, realizes the sequence of scenes depicted in the paintings match the nightmares she's had every night since the horrific ordeal three decades earlier. Rebecca's art student Francis, an autistic savant, gives her a series of paintings he's done. Surely he'd still be in jail or dead by now-wouldn't he?īut things get stranger. Is Molly trying to communicate with her? Not possible, thinks Rebecca, who's never believed in God or an afterlife.Īnd it couldn't be their attacker from so many years ago he was imprisoned for a similar crime at about that same time. Rebecca, now a painter and art teacher, and alone since Molly died of cancer, suddenly begins getting strange and anonymous text messages-the first with just her name. Fearful of retribution against their family, the girls kept the incident secret.
Zarah, at her grandmother's suggestion, tries to put the pain from the past aside to see if any love remains between her and Bobby.It's been thirty years since the terrifying abduction of twin sisters Rebecca and Molly Underhill by a deranged man who lived in a cabin behind their house in upstate New York.
When Bobby realizes Zarah is part of his investigation, he is tempted to use his grandmother's not-so-subtle setup as a way to learn if Zarah is involved in the fraud.
His new job: lead a task force investigating potential real estate fraud connected with the Commission. Nashville native Bobby Patterson has just returned home after many years away to take a position with the Tennessee Criminal Investigations Unit. Zarah Mitchell, who's worked at the Middle Tennessee Historic Preservation Commission for more than a decade, is about to face a piece of history that could ruin the life she's built in Nashville: Bobby Patterson-her first love and the reason her father kicked her out fourteen years ago. Can the historian learn to leave the past in the past?
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