The new psychological thriller from the bestselling author of The Straw Men and The Intruders is a heart-stopping tale of deception, and our culpability in our own misfortunes. On a beautiful summer afternoon, four-year-old Scott Henderson walked out onto a jetty over a lake in Black Ridge, Washington. He never came back. His father’s world ended that day, but three years later John Henderson is still alive. Living a life, of sorts. Until one night John receives an e-mail message from a stranger who claims to know what happened to his little boy. Against his better judgment, Henderson returns to Black Ridge, unwittingly unleashing a terrifying sequence of events that threatens to destroy what remains of everything he once held dear. John learns the hard way that Bad Things don’t happen just to other people–they’re waiting ‘round the corner for you, too. And you won’t know when they start to worm their way in through the cracks in your life until it’s far too late . . .