Mickey also works hard to repair his relationship with near-girlfriend Rachel, though it helps not at all that she has recently broken up with Troy. And the elderly doomsayer known as the Bat Lady magically reappears to put Mickey back on the path to finding his father. Transfer student Mickey struggles to fit in with the varsity basketball team and is blamed when star player Troy is suspended for drug use. Ema and Jared have only interacted online and never met. His goth friend Ema asks for his help in finding her missing boyfriend Mickey didn’t even know that she had a boyfriend, and he’s half right. New, dangerous problems pop up almost immediately to challenge Mickey. The mystery surrounding this last remains murky after the senior Bolitar’s exhumed coffin is revealed to contain only ashes.

The story picks up shortly after the end of teen Mickey’s previous caper ( Seconds Away, 2012), with his pal Spoon in the hospital, his mother in drug rehab and his dad dubiously reported dead. With lives on the line, including her own, Kat must venture deeper into the darkness than she ever has before and discover if she has the strength to survive what she finds there.Young Mickey Bolitar searches for his missing father, confronts the online infatuation of his best friend and tries to find the truth surrounding a basketball drug scandal. But when she reaches out to the man in the profile, her reawakened hope quickly darkens into suspicion and then terror as an unspeakable conspiracy comes to light in which monsters prey upon the most vulnerable.Īs the body count mounts and Kat's hope for a second chance with Jeff grows more and more elusive, she is consumed by an investigation that challenges her feelings about everyone she's ever loved-her former fiancé, her mother, and even her father, whose cruel murder so long ago has never been fully explained.

Kat feels a spark, wondering if this might be the moment when past tragedies recede and a new world opens up to her.

Staring back at her is her ex-fiancé, Jeff, the man who shattered her heart-and whom she hasn't seen in eighteen years. But as NYPD detective Kat Donovan focuses on the accompanying picture, she feels her whole world explode as emotions she's ignored for decades come crashing down on her. It's a profile, like all the others on the online dating site. From #1 New York Times bestselling author Harlan Coben, a heart-pounding thriller about the ties we have to our past.and the lies that bind us together

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