Nancy Harmon, accused of killing her own children, is released because the key witness has disappeared and her husband took his own life. Leaving California for Cape Cod, Nancy remarries. She has two more children again, and the pain of loss begins to fade. But one morning the children are gone. And the horror returns.
"By some miracle she made it to the shore before wet clothes could pull her back down. She fell onto sand crusted with ice. Her ears were ringing. Through the fog, she looked toward the forest—and suddenly saw him—his face… Whose face?"