It begins in Southern Illinois. There Randi Brock witnesses the shooting of her husband at the secluded Cedar Hill River Resort outside the town of Cave-In-Rock. After surviving the all-night chase of anonymous killers, she reports her husband's death to
Two years ago, Claire Kendall lost her husband in a tragic boating accident along the Ohio River...two years since she began the painful process of healing. But there can be no closure for Claire after a message appeared on her computer. A phrase only Claire and her dead husband would know. One chilling incident after another makes Claire question her grip on reality as she continues to be taunted with the impossible...that somehow her husband could still be alive. Now Claire must return to Golconda, Illinois to find the answers. As the buried truth struggles to the surface...a truth so horrible that its secret must be kept at the price of any life...Claire finds herself trapped in a terrifying game. A game that has now indelibly marked her for death.