From the award-winning author of The Lake of Dead Languages comes a chilling new psychological thriller about a professor accused
of killing her favorite student in a hit-and-run accident.
Nan
Lewis — a creative writing professor at a state university in upstate New
York — is driving home from a faculty holiday party after finding out
she’s been denied tenure. On her way, she hits a deer, but when she gets out of her car to look for it, the deer is nowhere to be found. Eager
to get home and out of the oncoming snowstorm, Nan is forced to leave
her car at the bottom of her snowy driveway to wait out the longest
night of the year — and the lowest point of her life...
The next
morning, Nan is woken up by a police officer at her door with terrible
news — one of her students, Leia Dawson, was killed in a hit-and-run on
River Road the night before. And because of the damage to her car, Nan
is a suspect. In the days following the accident, Nan finds herself
shunned by the same community that rallied around her when her own
daughter was killed in an eerily similar accident six years prior. When
Nan begins finding disturbing tokens that recall the death of Nan’s own
daughter, Nan suspects that the two accidents are connected.
As
she begins to dig further, she discovers that everyone around her,
including Leia, is hiding secrets. But can she uncover them, clear her
name, and figure out who really killed Leia before her reputation is
destroyed for good?
