The most recent thriller in the internationally bestselling writer of The Lake of Dead Dialects as well as the Other Mother, a tale of mistaken identities and missed chances, forgiveness, and vengeance.

“Carol Goodman is normally, to put it simply, a stellar writer.”-Lisa Unger, New York Times bestselling writer of The Red Hunter

ALICE gets off a bus in the center of a snowstorm in Delphi, NY. She is fleeing an abusive relationship and desperate to safeguard…

OREN, ten years old, a significant Star Wars enthusiast and wise about THE NIGHT TIME Site visitors: A Book beyond his years. Though Alice is usually wary, Oren bonds almost instantly with…

MATTIE, a sociable employee in her fifties who also lives in an enormous run-down home in the center of the woods. Mattie lives by itself and is often available, and so she is the individual the hotline constantly calls if they need a late-night pickup. And although according to process Mattie should consider Alice and Oren to an area shelter, rather she brings them house for the night. She has a lot of space, she says. What she doesn’t say is normally that Oren reminds her of her small brother, who died thirty years ago at the age of ten.

But Mattie isn’t the only person withholding elements of the truth. Alice is keeping her very own secrets. So that as the snowstorm worsens about them, each woman’s past will demonstrate itself unburied, stirring up risks both within and without.