A hard, four-hour drive north of San Francisco leads to
sparsely populated Soledad County, a combination of
spectacular seashore, inland forests, and small towns
steeped in gold-mining history. One of those towns is
Cyanide Wells, now an artsy community, whose name comes
from the miners' use of cyanide to refine ore and the time
the area's water supply was tragically poisoned.
To Matthew Lindstrom, that sinister legacy is ironically
appropriate for the place he finally expects to find his
ex-wife, Gwen. Fourteen years earlier, her baffling
disappearance branded him a murderer and destroyed his
reputation and career as a photographer. Suddenly, after
all this time, an anonymous phone caller tells him that
Gwen is alive-and well aware of what she has done. Matt
comes to Cyanide Wells looking for answers…and revenge.
Here, where the surrounding thick forest conceals twisted
paths and old sins, Matt works to uncover the details of
Gwen's new life. But before he can confront her, his ex
vanishes once more. With his future again threatened by
suspicion, Matt must join forces with Carly McGuire-a
local woman with secrets of her own-and begin a hunt
through Soledad's untamed landscape and an interior
geography of betrayal and darkness. There perhaps lies the
truth about past crimes and Gwen's fate...as well as
Matt's own.
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