Itâs not that theyâve been all that close in the past few years, but sisters Willa and Sawyer Stannard are bonded by the ups and downs of the life theyâve lived with their mercurial single mother. When Willa is found dead in her apartment from an apparent suicide, Sawyer just knows itâs not possible. A cryptic note from the acclaimed broadcast journalist leads police to rule out foul play. Shattered by griefâand obsessed by the idea that her sisterâs death was not a suicideâSawyer plunges into a search for the truth. When Sawyer learns that Willa was writing an explosive true-crime book about the decades-old disappearance of a toddler that rocked a small town hundreds of miles away, sheâs even more convinced that Willaâs death is suspicious. Believing it is somehow connected to the research Willa was doing for the book, Sawyer begins to trace her sisterâs steps, deep into a community she canât begin to understand and to a truth that could destroy her as easily as it did Willa. As she masterfully ratchets up the suspense, Robards never loosens her grip in a debut novel sure to keep listeners guessingâand talking.