Luce is a solitary young woman, caretaker of an old lodge on the edge of a lake in the mountains of North Carolina that's as isolated as she is. Until her beautiful, gentle sister Lily is murdered, and Luce inherits mute, traumatised twins. Luce knows that if the children come to harm under her care she will never be able to forgive herself, but it takes all her energy to keep them away from a world of dangers: water, fire, axes, snakes . . . And Lily's husband, a chilling killer who is missing a horde of cash, and thinks the twins must have it.
- ISBN10 140006709X
- ISBN13 9781400067091
- Publish Date 27 September 2011 (first published 1 January 2011)
- Publish Status Remaindered
- Publish Country US
- Publisher Random House USA Inc
- Imprint Random House Inc
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 259
- Language English