When James’s twin brother Johnny dies, she can feel it. It’s not just twintuition; she sees his final view of dappled light through the trees. She feels the bullet wound to the chest. Not too long after she drives from San Francisco, where she’s made her life for the past two decades, back to her hometown of Six Rivers in the mountains of northern California.

Cassie loves a genre-bender and Charlotte McConaghy has delivered. Why am I writing in the third-person right now? I’m not sure, but I think it has to do with excitement level.

Sarah Lindgate fell off the cliffs of Capri on a family vacation in 1992. Since then the Lindgate family has continued to vacation there and her now 33-year-old daughter, Helen, wrestles with feeling trapped in her very controlled life.

Janeway Sharp is at a college party when she gets the news: her father has died. In the wake of his death and the middle of her grief, Jane sees other news break of a woman murdered in a nearby Florida town.