Laurie is just days away from her midsummer wedding when her fiance's nephew, seven-year-old Johnny, vanishes from the beach. Witnesses spotted Johnny playing in the water and collecting shells, but no one remembers seeing him after that. When Johnny's bodyboard washes up to shore, everyone realises that the worst could have happened. The answers to Johnny's disappearance lie in a family's long-buried past . . . and the clock is ticking. Another riveting page-turner from the Queen of Suspense and her dazzling partner-in-crime.