Anna Hart is a missing persons detective in San Francisco. When tragedy strikes her personal life, Anna, desperate and numb, flees to the Northern California village of Mendocino to mourn. She lived there as a child with her beloved adoptive parents, and now she believes that it may be the only place left for her. However, on the day she arrives there, it turns out that a local teenage girl has gone missing. The crime is eerily reminiscent of the most defining moment in Anna's childhood, when the unsolved murder of a young girl affected Mendocino and changed the community forever. As past and present collide, Anna realizes she has been led to this moment. The hardest lessons of her life gave her an understanding of how victims come into contact with cruel predators. As Anna becomes obsessed with the missing girl, she must accept that true courage means getting out of her own way and learning to let others in. Weaving together real missing persons cases, trauma theory, and a hint of metaphysics, this fascinating and deeply moving novel tells the story of fate. , necessary redemption, and what it takes, when the worst happens, to reclaim our lives—and our faith in each other.From the New York Times bestselling author of The Paris Wife, a new novel of intertwined destinies and heartbreaking tension; about a detective hiding from the world. About a series of disappearances that go back to her past. Could their decision help her heal?