For fifteen long years he was cut off from society - in voluntary exile in a mental institution - as punishment for the horrible crime he committed as a child. But what if it's all a lie?

Rachel Cunningham locked herself in a mental institution a decade and a half ago, tormented only by the gaping holes in her memory and the certainty that she was responsible for her parents' deaths.

But as new details emerge about the murders, Rachel searches for answers and returns to the place she once felt safe: the family's massive hunting lodge deep in the woods of Michigan's Upper Peninsula.

As Rachel slowly begins to unravel what happened on the day her parents were murdered, she realizes - just as her mother once did - that home can be a place not only of love, but also of unspeakable evil, and the bond she has with her own sister. , the most poisonous of all.

Karen Dionne's new thriller with a Hitchcockian feel shows a young woman's battle with her demons and is also a chilling study of psychopathy.