“By some miracle, she got up and made it to the shore before her wet clothes pulled her down again. She fell onto the ice-crusted sand. There was a buzzing in my ears. Through the fog before her eyes, she looked at the forest and suddenly saw him - his face... Whose face?.. "Nancy Harmon, accused of murdering her own children, is released because the main witness has disappeared and her husband committed suicide. After leaving California for Cape Cod, Nancy marries again. She has two children again, and the pain of loss begins to subside. But one morning the children disappear. And the nightmare returns. Mary Higgins Clark's intriguing, action-packed novel "The Children Won't Come Back" is the first book by a recognized master that brought her worldwide fame.