![]() ![]() ![]() While out walking one day, she stumbles upon the old estate-now crumbling and covered with vines, clearly abandoned long ago. Miles away, Sadie Sparrow, a young detective in the London police force, is staying at her grandfather's house in Cornwall. Theo's case has never been solved, though Alice still harbours a suspicion as to the culprit. Nearly sixty years later, having enjoyed a long, successful career as an author, Alice is now eighty years old and living in London. ![]() What follows is a tragedy that tears the family apart in ways they never imagined, leaving their estate as empty as their broken hearts. One midsummer's eve, after a beautiful party drawing hundreds of guests to the estate has ended, the Edevanes discover that their youngest son, Theo, has vanished without a trace. But the mysteries she pens are no match for the one her family is about to endure. Living on her family's gorgeous lakeside estate in Cornwall, England, Alice Edevane is a bright, clever, inquisitive, innocent, and precociously talented fourteen-year-old who loves to write stories. ![]() From the New York Times and internationally bestselling author of The Secret Keeper and The Distant Hours, an intricately plotted, spellbinding new novel of heartstopping suspense and uncovered secrets. ![]()
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