Heike Lerner’s life looks perfect
from the outside: she’s settled into an easy routine of caring for her young
son, Daniel, and spends her days wandering the woods near their summer house,
while her nights are filled with clinking glasses and charming conversation. It
all helps to keep her mind at ease—or at least that’s what her husband,
Eric, tells her. But lately, Heike’s noticed there are some things out of
place: a mysterious cabin set back in the trees and a strange little girl who
surfaces alone at the pond one day, then disappears—while at home Eric is
becoming increasingly more controlling. Something sinister that Heike cannot
quite put her finger on is lingering just beneath the surface of this idyllic
life.
It’s possible Heike’s worries are
all in her head, but when the unthinkable happens—Daniel vanishes while she and
Eric are at a party one night—she can no longer deny that something is very
wrong.
Desperate to find her son, Heike
will try anything, but Eric insists on a calm that feels so cold she wonders if
she can trust him at all.
Could Eric be involved in Daniel’s
disappearance? Or has some darker thing taken him? The closer Heike gets
to the truth, the faster it slips away. But she will not rest until she finds
her 