Bestselling author Michael Noonan's wife dies unexpectedly, leaving him unable to face the blank screen of his wordprocessor without feeling panic and nausea Nightmares and voices from the past draw him to their once happy lakeside retreat, where changes in the local community help him develop the urge to write again A gripping, haunting tale of suspense, romance, terror and grief, of lost love's enduring bonds and of a new love, struggling to be free of the past and the sins of the ancestors