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In a riveting new thriller from Americas Queen of Suspense a young woman isensnared into returning to a place she had wanted to leave behind forever her childhood home. There at the age of ten Liza Barton had shot hermother trying desperately to protect her from her estranged stepfather TedCartwright. Despite his claim that the shooting was a deliberate act theJuvenile Court ruled the death an accident. Many people however agreed withCartwright and the tabloids compared her to the infamous murderess LizzieBorden pointing even to the similarity of their names.To erase Lizas pasther adoptive parents change her name to Celia. At age twentyeight asuccessful interior designer in Manhattan she marries a childless sixtyyearold widower Laurence Foster and they have a son. Before their marriage shereveals to him her true identity. Two years later on his deathbed he makesher swear never to tell anyone so that their son Jack will not carry thestigma of her past. Two years later Celia is happily remarried. Her peaceof mind is shattered when her new husband Alex Nolan surprises her with agift the house in Mendham New Jersey where she killed her mother. On theday they move in they find the words little lizzies place beware paintedon the lawn splotches of red paint all over the house and a skull andcrossbones carved into the door.More and more there are signs that someonein the community knows Celias true identity. When Georgette Grove the realestate agent who sold the house to Alex is brutally murdered and Celia is thefirst on the crime scene she becomes a suspect. As Celia fights to proveher innocence she is not awarethat she and her son Jack are now the targetsof a killer. «
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