Popular psychologist Alex Delaware returns in this riveting thriller from #1 New York Times bestselling author Jonathan Kellerman.

Patty Bigelow had finally gotten herself on her feet?bought a home, earned her RN, secured a good job in the ER. And that's when her wild-child sister Leila ran off with a trucker, leaving an eight-year-old daughter on Patty's doorstep. Patty prepares to shoulder the burden as she has so many others, but Tanya proves an unexpected handful. Bewildered, her reluctant guardian enlists the aid of child psychologist Alex Delaware.

Fifteen years later, Tanya is a capable, high-strung young woman mourning the loss of her aunt. She's baffled by Patty's last words, a deathbed confession of murder: "One of the people who lived near us. You got to make it right." Skeptical at first, but increasingly troubled, Tanya once again seeks out Alex Delaware, and with the help of Detective Milo Sturgis, they search the past for clues to a crime that may or may not be real?a crime that seems to have ignited deadly repercussions in the present.