Courtney Gray's peaceful family vacation at a secluded lake resort is shattered when a scream from the neighboring cottage leads her to find her brother and sister-in-law dead. Her teenage niece Reese is missing, while her young nephew Wyatt is found asleep upstairs, physically unharmed. As police descend on the resort town, unsettling secrets about Courtney's extended family begin to surface, compounded when Courtney learns of a strikingly similar missing-girl case from years earlier in the same town. Convinced the police investigation alone won't be enough, Courtney begins her own parallel search for Reese, pulling at threads that implicate more members of her family and the town's residents than she anticipated. The novel is told from two alternating perspectives — Courtney's, tracking the aftermath and investigation, and Reese's, unspooling the week leading up to the murders, including a secret romantic relationship with an older man and rising tensions within the family that the reader senses will detonate. Kubica, known for tightly plotted domestic suspense with a strong emphasis on misdirection, builds toward a resolution that recontextualizes both timelines. Critical and reader response has been mixed: some found the dual-timeline structure and eventual reveal genuinely surprising and emotionally affecting, while others felt the pacing dragged in the middle third and the eventual twist was more predictable than in Kubica's earlier, highly praised Local Woman Missing.