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Seven years ago Nancy Eldredge had changed her name, dyed her hair and fled across the continent to Cape Cod, determined to forget the horror she'd left behind. Now she has a home, a husband and two beautiful children. The past seems safely buried. But one morning, in a nightmarish repetition of the old tragedy, the children disappear. And because of her history, Nancy becomes the chief target of the investigation, suspected of murder by the police and doubted by her own husband. "Where are the children?" they ask.prologueHe could feel the chill coming in through the cracks around the windowpanes. Clumsily he got up and lumbered over to the window. Reaching for one of the thick towels he kept handy, he stuffed it around the rotting frame.The incoming draft made a soft, hissing sound in the towel, a sound that vaguely pleased him. He looked out at the mist-filled sky and studied the whitecaps churning in the water. From this side of the house it was often possible to see Provincetown, on the opposite shore of Cape Cod Bay.He hated the Cape. He hated the bleakness of it on a November day like this. He had hated it the one summer he'd spent herewaves of tourists sprawling on the beaches; climbing up the steep embankment to this house; gawking in the downstairs windows.He hated the large for sale signs that Ray Eldredge had posted in the front and back, and the fact that now Ray and that woman who worked for him had begun bringing people in to see the house. Last month it had been only a matter of luck that he'd come along as they'd started through, that he'd gotten to the top floor ahead of them to put away the telescope.