A broken promise discloses a terrifying legacy within this electrifying novel from the New York Times bestselling writer of When All of the Girls Have got Gone. Seattle gallery owner Virginia Troy provides spent years fighting the demons that stem from her youth amount of time in a cult and the night time a fire burned through the substance killing her mother. And now one of her artists has taken her very own life, but not before sending Virginia a final picture.a painting which makes Virginia doubt everything about the so-called suicide-and her own past. Like Virginia, PI Cabot Sutter was among the kids in the cult who survived that fire-and just he might help her today. As they battle to unravel the hints in the picture, it becomes clear that someone thinks Virginia understands more than she will which she should be halted. Thrown into an inferno of desire and deception, Virginia and Cabot pull ever closer to the secret of their distributed memories-and the shocking fate of the main one guy who still wields the energy to ruin everything they keep dear.