The riveting novel from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Liar.âShe stood in the deep, dark woods, breath shallow and cold prickling over her skin despite the hot, heavy air. She took a step back, then two, as the urge to run fell over her.âNaomi Bowes lost her innocence the night she followed her father into the woods. In freeing the girl trapped in the root cellar, Naomi revealed the horrible extent of her fatherâs crimes and made him infamous. No matter how close she gets to happiness, she canât outrun the sins of Thomas David Bowes.Now a successful photographer living under the name Naomi Carson, she has found a place that calls to her, a rambling old house in need of repair, thousands of miles away from everything sheâs ever known. Naomi wants to embrace the solitude, but the kindly residents of Sunrise Cove keep forcing her to open upâespecially the determined Xander Keaton.Naomi can feel her defenses failing, and knows that the connection her new life offers is something sheâs always secretly craved. But the sins of her father can become an obsession, and, as sheâs learned time and again, her past is never more than a nightmare away.
