Audio Book Description:
Twenty years ago, four teenagers at summer camp walked intothe woods at night. Two werefound murdered, and the others were never seen again. Fourfamilies had their lives changed forever. Now, two decades later, they are about to change again. For Paul Copeland, the county prosecutor ofEssex, New Jersey, mourning theloss of his sister has only recently begun to subside. Cope, as he is known, is now dealingwith raising his six year olddaughter as a single father after his wife has died of cancer. Balancing family life anda rapidly ascending career as a prosecutor distracts himfrom his past traumas, but onlyfor so long. When a homicide victim is found with evidence linking him to Cope, the well buried secrets of the prosecutor`sfamily are threatened. Is this homicide victim one of the campers who disappeared with his sister? Could his sister be alive? Cope has to confrontso much he left behind that summer twenty years ago: his first love, Lucy; his mother, whoabandoned the family; and thesecrets that his Russian parentsmight have been hiding even from their own children. Cope mustdecide what is better left hidden in the dark and what truths can be brought to the light.