The Lost Summer

A girl's vanishing draws a detective into the crimes and mysteries of her own past in a shocking novel of psychological suspense by the New York Times bestselling author of The Fourth Girl.

Detective Sergeant Midge Kennedy and her lifelong pals Talia and Kelly have reunited on the twenty-fifth anniversary of the disappearance of their friend Caroline, hoping to put that summer of loss behind them. But as the season draws to a close in Mulberry Bay, Midge is plunged into a missing person case with unsettling ties to the past.

Ordinarily, she wouldn't suspect foul play when a sixteen-year-old girl is just a few hours late getting home on a beautiful summer afternoon. But her investigation yields a shocking glimpse of a familiar face, and mounting coincidences link Sarah Greene's vanishing to Caroline's.

The clues lead to Haven Cliff, an abandoned Gilded Age estate that's been the stuff of cursed legend for generations. It's also Kelly's new home, restored after decades of ruin. Midge suspects that the wooded grounds hold the key to Sarah's fate and Caroline's. But will Haven Cliff--and Midge herself--give up long-buried secrets?

Wendy Corsi Staub is the New York Times bestselling and multi-award-winning author of more than one hundred novels, including The Fourth Girl, Windfall, The Other Family, and Dying Breath. She is also the author of the Lily Dale Mystery series, the Foundling trilogy, the Mundy's Landing trilogy, the Nightwatcher trilogy, and the Live to Tell trilogy. Wendy is a three-time finalist for the Simon & Schuster Mary Higgins Clark Award, and she's won an RWA Rita Award, an RT Award for Career Achievement in Suspense, the 2007 RWA/NYC Golden Apple Award for Lifetime Achievement, and five WLA Washington Irving Prizes for Fiction. Born and raised in Dunkirk, New York, Wendy is married, has two sons and three rescue cats, and has fostered for various animal rescue organizations. For more information, visit www.wendycorsistaub.com.