She expects trouble from everywhere. But such evil is difficult to imagine even for her... A sinister past literally haunts private detective Gwen Proctor. But her present is no less nightmarish. After a bloody incident at school, Gwen's son and the rest of the family once again become prey to the media. To protect her loved ones, Gwen decides to go to North Carolina, where she was offered a job: to find a missing girl. Juliet Larson was last seen getting into a car with a guy she clearly knew. But no one else knows anything about him. Gwen knows how to search for missing people better than anyone when the situation is hopeless, but this time she is powerless. Any clue only raises new questions. Proctor does not yet know that she has found an enemy who is almost impossible to identify. And that now the horror will return to her house on Dead Lake... Rachel Kane began this novel, already knowing about her fatal illness. She was not destined to finish it. However, the Dead Lake series, important to Kane both as a person and as a writer, was continued by her talented friend, also a New York Times bestselling author.