suspense

Arriving at a deserted lake house to investigate an aborted call to police, Deputy Anna McCafferty walks into the middle of a heinous crime and is deprived of her weapon, car, and phone, forced to flee, along with the twenty-five-year-old daughter of the murdered couple, into the surrounding forest to escape the perpetrators who must eliminate any potential witnesses.

A priest struggles with his own inner demons when he is called upon to exorcise a mysteriously, violently troubled eleven-year-old girl.

As a new generation prepares to celebrate the fiftieth anniversary of VE day, Gerald remains terrorized by the discovery so long ago of his sister's body. Now, desperately lonely, he finds solace in following a young girl home from school. But when the girl disappears, all eyes turn accusingly to him.

Fear and violence surround Ellie when she accidentally learns some unpleasant secrets that the inhabitants of Burton, Virginia, were determined to keep buried.