Once upon a time I had the perfect family. I had the perfect husband. I had the perfect children. I had the perfect life in the perfect home. And then, as in all fairy tales, evil came into our lives and destroyed us.
Oak Knoll # 3
Dutton
January 2012
On Sale: December 27, 2011
Featuring: Lauren Lawton; Tony Mendez
448 pages ISBN: 052595239X EAN: 9780525952398 Kindle: B005ERIJY8 Hardcover / e-Book Add to Wish List
Four years after the unsolved disappearance of her sixteen-
year-old daughter, Lauren Lawton
is the only one still chasing the ghosts of her perfect
Santa Barbara life. The world has given
her daughter up for dead. Her husband ended his own life in
the aftermath. Even Lauren's
younger daughter is desperate to find what's left of the
childhood she hasn't been allowed
to have.
Lauren knows exactly who took her oldest child, but there
is not a shred of evidence against
the man. Even as he stalks her family, Lauren is powerless
to stop him. The Santa Barbara
police are handcuffed by the very laws they are sworn to
uphold. Looking for a fresh start in
a town with no memories, Lauren and her younger daughter
Leah move to idyllic Oak Knoll.
But when Lauren's suspect turns up in the same city, it
feels to all the world that history
is about to repeat itself. Leah Lawton will soon turn
sixteen, and Oak Knoll has a cunning
predator on the hunt.
Sheriff's detective Tony Mendez and his team begin to close
in on the suspected killer, desperate
to keep the young women of their picturesque town safe. But
as the investigators sift
through the murky circumstances of an increasingly
disturbing case, a stunning question
changes everything they thought they knew.