A missing girl. A town in denial. And a devastating secret that's about to unravel.

Australia, 1948. Two young sisters disappear without a trace. Five years later the youngest returns, but refuses to speak of what happened to her older sister – or the man who abducted them.

More than six decades later, small town journalist Abby Bardot is haunted by her own childhood abduction, secretly fearing the wrong man was imprisoned. So when a teenager disappears from a nearby forest reserve, she sets out to expose the town's dark history and warn other girls of the dangers.

When the newspaper tries to suppress the story, Abby seeks help from reclusive crime writer Tom Gabriel. Tom is cynical and closed off, but his resistance vanishes when they discover a hidden attic in his house with evidence of imprisonment from over 60 years ago. As they work together to unravel the house's tragic history—and overcome their own emotional scars—what they discover in Tom's attic might just hold the key to finding the missing girl alive.

A gripping romantic mystery from bestseller Anna Romer