Twenty years ago, four
teenagers at summer camp walked into the woods at night. Two
were found
murdered, and the others were never seen again. Four
families had their
lives changed forever. Now, two decades later, they are
about to change
again.
For Paul Copeland, the county prosecutor of Essex, New
Jersey, mourning
the loss of his sister has only recently begun to subside.
Cope, as he
is known, is now dealing with raising his six- year-old
daughter as a
single father after his wife has died of cancer. Balancing
family life
and a rapidly ascending career as a prosecutor distracts him
from his
past traumas, but only for so long. When a homicide victim
is found
with evidence linking him to Cope, the well-buried secrets
of the
prosecutor�s family are threatened.
Is this homicide
victim
one of the campers who disappeared with his sister? Could
his sister be
alive? Cope has to confront so much he left behind that
summer twenty
years ago: his first love, Lucy; his mother, who abandoned
the family;
and the secrets that his Russian parents might have been
hiding even
from their own children. Cope must decide what is better
left hidden in
the dark and what truths can be brought to the light.