A crime writer. A cold case. Will she survive to tell the story?Since the sudden and tragic death of her partner, bestselling crime author Serena Winters hasn-t written a word. With deadlines looming, she packs up her grief and escapes from New York City to a secluded clifftop house in small-town California, hoping the change of scenery will cure her writer-s block. But as news of her arrival spreads, Serena finds herself facing strange accusations that she-s here to cash in on the house-s history. When she uncovers the chilling story of a young family who mysteriously vanished from the very same house thirty years earlier, she can-t help asking more questions-Someone in the local community doesn-t want the past dug up, though. Someone willing to push Serena to the limits of her sanity to keep the truth buried. Caught in a spiraling campaign of intimidation, and harboring a dark secret of her own, Serena soon finds herself in the kind of danger she usually only writes about-