She survived the night. The truth didn’t. When Nicole gets a call from the police in the middle of the night, her life changes forever. She was just seventeen when she had Lacey, and she swore her daughter would have a better life than she did. Then Lacey is found in the woods beside her friend’s dead husband. He has been stabbed forty-five times. Lacey is barely alive. Covered in blood. And completely mute. She hasn’t said a word since. Not to the police. Not to her husband. Not even to Nicole. Soon, everyone decides Lacey did it. And the Alderwyns become the most hated family in town. But Nicole knows her daughter isn’t a cold-blooded murderer. Guilt didn’t silence her. Fear did. Whatever happened in those woods scares Lacey more than prison. And her silence is hiding something darker than murder. Now Nicole is running out of time. Because whatever came for her daughter and left one person dead is coming for her next.