Laurie Ahmadi has worked as a 911 police dispatcher in her quiet Northern California town for seventeen years. Her husband, Omid, is chief, and their teenage daughter Jojo has grown up surrounded by cops. So when Laurie catches a 911 call and, to her horror, it's Jojo, the whole department springs into action.
From the author of Stolen Things comes a twisty thriller that asks how tightly we are bound to our pasts, how much we can trust those around us, and how far a mother will go to protect her child.
On a foggy winter morning two children discover the impossible: the wreck of an eighteenth-century ship stranded in a field. One enters the hatch on the deck and is never seen again. And she isn't the last to disappear . . .