Book–of–the–Month Club Literary Guild Doubleday Book Club and Mystery Guild selection.

"Complex relationships blur the lines between friend and foe heightening the suspense in this intricate haunting story of a family in crisis and the writing is simply superb. Highly recommended for all fiction collections." - Library Journal starred.

"This book should settle once and for all the question of whether thrillers and mysteries can also be literature." - Publishers Weekly starred.

Adam Harston has spent the last five years in New York City trying to erase his past. Then a phone call from his best friend awakens a torrent of emotion and pain. Adam knew that going back to North Carolina would be hard - but within hours of his arrival he's beaten accosted and confronted by his family and by Grace the young woman whose rejection torments him the most. Now people are turning up dead and with his past looming large Adam becomes the prime suspect.