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Ballantine
October 2007
On Sale: September 25, 2007
Featuring: Kate Russell; Sheriff Bill Delaney
368 pages
ISBN: 0345497678
EAN: 9780345497673
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Mystery | Women's Fiction
Sometimes the past comes looking for you. . . . Two years ago, in idyllic Carystown, Kentucky, nine-year- old Isabella Moon disappeared on her way home from school. Is it just coincidence that Kate Russell, a young woman with no discernible past, arrived in town just months before Isabellaโs disappearance? When Kate walks into Sheriff Bill Delaneyโs office to tell him that Isabellaโs ghost has led her to the childโs hidden grave, he immediately views her as a suspect. Mystery follows mystery as a local athlete drops dead, inexplicably, on the basketball court, and someone close to Kate is viciously murdered. Quiet Carystown was to be Kateโs salvation, and sheโs settled into a comfortable job, a charming cottage, and a blissful romance. But having lied to her boyfriend, Caleb, for so long about the terrors of her past life, she finds she canโt trust him to understand the terror that Isabella Moon has now brought. And Kateโs best friend, Francie, is too wrapped up in her own troubles โ particularly a secret affair with a man she at once loves and despises โ to give Kate the help she needs. Utterly alone, Kate is torn between finding justice for the dead child and keeping away old ghosts of her own. The unsolved disappearance of Isabella Moon has been the biggest disappointment of Sheriff Delaneyโs career. But he senses that Kate is trouble. As he investigates her impossible claims, he also uncovers a series of unsettling truths about Carystown itself. Behind his hometownโs genteel faรงade is a morass of lies and murder, drugs and destruction. And Carystownโs residents are about to discover that even though the past is buried, it can rise again โ with a vengeance.
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