Twenty-five years ago, Jesse’s cousin, Mary, mysteriously vanished. Now, a sinister phone call lures him back to his hometown, where nothing has changed...except Jesse himself.
Dr. Jesse Hart has spent the last two decades struggling to keep the past at bay: how his cousin, Mary, vanished without a trace; how he could have stopped it; should have stopped it. Now, a woman claiming to be Mary lures him back to his childhood home--Twin Oaks, NC, population 1,021--where every small town smile hides a lie. And in every lie, a clue. To where Mary went. And where Jesse went wrong all those years ago.
But the people of Twin Oaks keep their secrets well, even from one of their own. A string of disappearances and bodies. Familiar faces with silver eyes. An endangered red wolf pack that has taken refuge in the woods south of town.
Now, the memories he’s struggled to suppress thrust him into a waking nightmare. He’s always been a man of science. God was not a prof in Med School after all and Jesse never learned to cure a sickness of the soul.
Only those he left behind can save him--a son he never knew, a father he thought he knew, a childhood enemy who knows him better than he knows himself--for only the ones who hurt you can heal you.