They say you can never go home again, and sometimes maybe you just shouldn't...

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Erin Reece heads back to her small Montana hometown after being away for 15 years. There are obviously reasons one would stay away for this long, and soon after coming back everything she thought she had left behind begins to resurface.

This book had me hooked from the start. It was suspenseful but also had so much emotion and nostalgia tied up in it. We change perspective frequently, back and forth between what the town faced back in the mid 90's through to what Erin and the town is facing in the present day. The childhood struggles reminded me of what it was like for me growing up in the 90's in a small town. The bullies, the worries, the friendships, the chores, and just getting out and riding your bike. But with the added tension that people are going missing and no one knows who is doing it, or why, or even if it is anyone at all. There are parts of the book that really hit me on an emotional level to the point that I would have to put the book down to try and process the feelings, but certainly not for too long as I really needed to know what happens next.

The perspective changes were used to great effect, because anything that was happening in one period was as compelling as the other, so you definitely wanted to get back to the present because you couldn't be left in suspense for too long, but you wanted to go back to the 90's to see why Erin and the town ended up the way they did.

Pure nostalgia, total suspense, a book I hated to put down. This the first book I have read by John Burley but I have to now devour his back catalogue as soon as possible. I highly recommend this book.

What an amazing thriller. When two dead bodies are found on the main characters land it leads to a sequence events that will literally leave you on the edge of your seat until the last page. There’s a killer nearby and it turns out it’s close to home.

Erin left Wolf Point year ago; her mother disappeared, just one person among many that have disappeared from the town. But with her father seriously ill, she has no choice but to return. It may be almost twenty years since the last disappearance, but the town is still reeling from the affects. Two bodies have been found in shallow graves, on Erin’s family’s plans and the townspeople are out for Erin’s father’s blood. She knows her father isn’t capable of such atrocities, so she has to find out who is. It’s been awhile since Burley published .a book, but this story was well worth the wait