Even the biggest snowstorm won't bury the scary secrets
One night, in the middle of a snowstorm, Alice gets off the bus with her ten-year-old son Oren. Fleeing from her abusive husband, a desperate Alice tries to hide and protect herself and her child. But he keeps one secret to himself. They are picked up at the bus by Mattie, a 50-year-old social worker who lives alone in a dilapidated house in the middle of the woods. When they need to take care of someone in the middle of the night, they call her. According to the rules, she should take Alice and Oren to a local hostel, but instead she takes them to her home. That Oren reminds her of her younger brother, who died thirty years ago when he was ten, Mattie keeps to herself.
As the snowstorm around them intensifies, the two women's pasts come to the surface. Which one is more dangerous and which one is in more danger?
Author of the New York Times bestseller. Her work has won the Hammett Prize and the Mary Higgins Clark Award and has been nominated for the Dublin/IMPAC Award and the Nero Wolfe Award.
