Publisher's Synopsis
Death, accidental and early, has always been Abby Walters's preoccupation.Now thirty-three and eager to settle down with her commitment-shy boyfriend, arecurring dream from her past returns: a paralyzing nightmare of being buriedalive, the taste of dirt in her mouth cloying and real. But this time the dreamreveals a name from her family's past. Looking for answers, Abby returns home to small-town Minnesota for the first time in fourteen years, where she reconnectswith her high school crush, now a police detective on the trail of a violent criminal.When Abby tries on her grandmother's mesmerizing diamond ring, a ring shealways dreamed would be hers, she discovers a cryptic note long hidden beneaththe box's velvet lining. What secret was her grandmother hiding? And could this bethe key to what's haunting Abby? As she begins to uncover the traces of a lovetriangle gone shockingly wrong nearly seventy years before, we, too, see that thelayers of our lives may echo a past we've never known.
