A chilling tale of suspense for fans of Julia Heaberlin. Fourteen years ago, teenager Ellery Hataway was victim number seventeen in the grisly murder spree of serial killer Francis Michael Coben. She was the only one who loved. Now Coben is safely behind bars, and Ellery has a new identity in a sleepy town where bike theft makes the newspapers. But each July for the last three years, locals have been disappearing. Then Ellery receives trange messages hinting that the culprit knows exactly what happened to her all those years ago. When she tries to raise the arlam, no one will listen, and terrified she may be next, Ellery must turn to the one person who might believe her story...