A mother begins to challenge everything she’s been told about her daughter’s murder in a shocking novel of suspense by a New York Times bestselling author.

Ten years after her daughter, Melanie, was murdered, Bree Winter is finally moving on with a new love, a new home, and a new beginning. Then a deathbed confession from the convicted killer throws Bree’s life into a tailspin all over again. He readily confesses to murdering four girls. But not Melanie.

At first, Bree and her ex-husband don’t buy a word of it. Until inconsistencies about the crime emerge. So does the dreadful feeling that the monster who shattered Bree’s family isn’t lying. The only way she can get to the truth is to power through the trauma and return to the town in upstate New York where Melanie’s life came to a brutal end.

Bree will do anything to find justice for her daughter and finish this nightmare forever. Instead, it’s just beginning. Not only could the real killer still be in their midst, but as Bree begins to dig through Melanie’s past, what she discovers calls into question everything she has believed—about the crime and about Melanie herself.

Kate White is the New York Times and USA Today bestselling author of nineteen novels of suspense, including the stand-alone thrillers The Last Time She Saw Him, Between Two Strangers, The Second Husband, and the Bailey Weggins mysteries. A former editor-in-chief of Cosmopolitan for fourteen years, Kate decided to pursue another passion: writing suspense fiction. Her first mystery, If Looks Could Kill, was a Kelly Ripa Book Club pick, a #1 Amazon bestseller, and an instant New York Times bestseller. She has been nominated for an International Thriller Writers Award, and her books have been published in over thirty countries. Kate is an avid traveler and spends each winter with her husband at their home in Uruguay. She holds an honorary doctorate of letters from her alma mater, Union College, where she gave the 2022 commencement address. For more information, visit www.katewhite.com.