Bloodline

An ITW Thriller Award and Anthony Award winner. Perfect town. Perfect homes. Perfect families. It"™s enough to drive some women mad"¦In a tale inspired by real events, pregnant journalist Joan Harken is cautiously excited to follow her fiancé back to his Minnesota hometown. After spending a childhood on the move and chasing the screams and swirls of news-rich city life, she"™s eager to settle down. Lilydale"™s motto, "Come Home Forever," couldn"™t be more inviting. And yet, something is off in the picture-perfect village. The friendliness borders on intrusive. Joan can"™t shake the feeling that every move she makes is being tracked. An archaic organization still seems to hold the town in thrall. So does the sinister secret of a little boy who vanished decades ago. And unless Joan is imagining things, a frighteningly familiar figure from her past is on watch in the shadows. Her fiancé tells her she"™s being paranoid. He might be right. Then again, she might have moved to the deadliest small town on earth.