Bloodline

An ITW Thriller Award and Anthony Award winner. Perfect town. Perfect homes. Perfect families. Its enough to drive some women mad In a tale inspired by real events, pregnant journalist Joan Harken is cautiously excited to follow her fianc back to his Minnesota hometown. After spending a childhood on the move and chasing the screams and swirls of news-rich city life, shes eager to settle down. Lilydales motto, Come Home Forever, couldnt be more inviting. And yet, something is off in the picture-perfect village. The friendliness borders on intrusive. Joan cant shake the feeling that every move she makes is being tracked. An archaic organization still seems to hold the town in thrall. So does the sinister secret of a little boy who vanished decades ago. And unless Joan is imagining things, a frighteningly familiar figure from her past is on watch in the shadows. Her fianc tells her shes being paranoid. He might be right. Then again, she might have moved to the deadliest small town on earth.