Police Sergeant Marcus Hayes, returning home from duty, gets caught in a snowstorm. He does not yet know that this delay will become fatal and soon Hayes will lose everything. At home he discovers his wife murdered, and from that moment his life turns into a real nightmare. The killer follows him everywhere, his wife appears at every step, and peering at her post-mortem photos, he suddenly sees not his wife, but Sylvia Bates, who was killed two years ago. The investigation is already reaching a dead end when the killer reminds himself of himself with another crime. How are these three murders connected and why do the dead haunt the living? Only by traversing the labyrinths of his own memory will Marcus Hayes be able to find the answers.

“Every Laura Keighley novel is a hot air balloon ride. Intrigue warms up the air under the dome, and the twist pulls the rug out from under your feet. The author frees himself from the ballast of materiality and soars, holding attention with unexpected fantasy. This is what aerobatics is all about.” – editor Ekaterina Irmesh A brilliant competitor to Blake Crouch, Frank Tilyev and John Marrs is Laura Keighley. She uses montage composition techniques, which makes her books similar to cinema. Laura Keighley knows how to end a chapter at the peak of tension, holding the reader's attention.