Gudenkauf, Heather

A woman receives an unexpected visitor during a deadly snowstorm.

"Sarah Quinlan's husband, Jack, has been haunted for decades by the untimely death of his mother when he was just a teenager...but when his beloved aunt Julia is in an accident, Jack and Sarah are forced to confront the past that they have long evaded..."--Front flap.

Seven-year-old Callie, silent since a violent incident in her home three years earlier, is dragged off into the forest by her drunk, irrational father Griff one morning, and when her friend, Petra, disappears from her home at the same time, things begin to look very dark for Griff.

When an unknown man armed with a gun walks into an elementary school classroom, holding the children hostage, Officer Meg Barrett watches and waits for his demands, while Evelyn Oliver, trapped in her classroom, wonders how to save her students.