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Melanie Stokes, adopted as an infant in Boston, has lived a life of privilege and love—until a determined reporter arrives to dig into her origin story. When a chilling note, "You Get What You Deserve," arrives, Melanie confronts the haunting possibility that her identity might be linked to a past murder. The shock of her first vision and the revelation that the Stokes family’s first daughter was killed in Texas unite to expose a chilling series of events from twenty years earlier.
As Melanie follows every lead and follows the shadows of her mother’s past, she discovers that the fate of her true selves and her family’s hidden secrets are intertwined—and that the truth could be her undoing.
First publish date: 1999
Genre: Suspense/General Suspense
Authors: Lisa Gardner
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