"When Nicolette Farrell receives a phone call from her brother, Daniel, with the news that their father is declining, she immediately heads back to her hometown of Cooley Ridge. Although she has established a new life elsewhere and is engaged to a successful young attorney, her homecoming causes memories of her adolescence and the mysterious disappearance of her friend Corinne Prescott ten years earlier to come flooding back. As Nicolette runs into the people from her past--her ex-boyfriend Tyler, her old friend Bailey, and Corinne's high school boyfriend Jackson--she ruminates on the fateful days that changed the course of each of their lives and realizes that she is inextricably tethered to the people and place she thought she had left behind. When the woman that Nic's ex-boyfriend has been seeing suddenly goes missing during her stay, Nicolette can't help but search for the connection between the two disappearances. In a mind-bending twist, the story of Nicolette's return to Cooley Ridge is told in reverse, keeping readers on the edge of their seats until the very last page is turned. This tale of buried secrets and a "town full of liars" cleverly explores the distance that people will go to protect those they love and poses haunting questions about the powerful grip the past can have on us and how well we can really know other people--and ourselves."--Publisher's website.