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Dr. Claire Elliot retreats to Locust Lake’s peaceful town of Tranquility, Maine, with her adolescent son Noah, hoping to escape city distractions and his father’s lingering memory. The town’s calm shatters when a teenager under Claire’s care commits a violent act—just the beginning of a sudden surge in lethal outbursts among the young residents. Claire discovers that such violent episodes recur every twenty years, suggesting a biological trigger behind the epidemic. Fearful of the hidden danger lurking in the lake’s clear waters, she races to protect Tranquility and Noah from a looming threat—a conspiracy that manipulates nature to turn innocent children into killers.
First publish date: April 5, 2004
Genre: Thriller/Medical Thriller
Authors: Tess Gerritsen
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