She and her Daddy live together alone until one day Daddy bring home a woman. Think “Fatal Attraction” type of behavior…Īnd then there is Mouse. She seems mentally unbalanced and stalks Will. Camille was once Sadie’s roommate in college. Sadie is not the only woman in Will’s life. One wonders why Sadie puts up with her behavior… Then things go from bad to worse when disturbing events seem to cast the Foust family under suspicion. One of the local, older nurses at the surgery where she works treats Sadie with disdain and disrespect.

Sadie feels trapped on this tiny island and she misses her former city life in Chicago. Her husband Will’s extramarital affair, her son Otto’s expulsion from school, not to mention her own employment disgrace… They left behind some troubling memories in Chicago. This is not exactly the ‘ fresh start‘ that she and her husband had hoped for. Winter is drawing in, days are short, and the thought of murder being committed so close, in such an insular community, ratchets up her stress levels. The house is situated on a tiny island off the coast of Maine. When Sadie, a doctor, learns of the murder of one of her neighbors, she is even more uneasy. But what can she do? The poor girl is grieving after the very recent suicide of her mother in this very house. Not exactly the example Sadie wants to have for her own two boys, Otto aged fourteen, and Tate, aged seven. Sixteen years old, surly, disrespectful, goth, and overly fond of expletives.

Along with the house came an extra responsibility in the form of her niece, Imogen. Sadie Foust has had a sense of foreboding ever since she first saw the house they had inherited from her husband’s sister.

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