Susan Speranza was born in New York City, grew up on Long Island, and went to college and for a time worked in Manhattan. For years she enjoyed the hectic pace and cultural amenities of the City, but after a great upheaval, she escaped the urban/suburban jungle and claimed her piece of the country in Vermont, where she has now lived happily for more than twenty years. In between the demands of life, she’s authored two other books: The City of Light, a dystopian story about the end of Western civilization, and The Tale of Lucia Grandi, The Early Years, a novel about a dysfunction suburban family. She’s also published numerous articles, poems, and short stories. Along the way, she managed to collect a couple of master’s degrees. When she is not writing, she keeps herself busy exhibiting and breeding her champion Pekingese.

A powerful tale of one woman’s journey from grief to acceptance and forgiveness after an accident shatters her near perfect life.

Francesca Bodin is an accomplished music teacher and professional flutist living in the country with her husband, Ben, and their four-year-old daughter, Addie. Her near-perfect life is shattered when a snowmobiling accident traps the three of them in a frozen lake. Ben escapes, leaving her and Addie behind to die.

When Francesca sees their dog pull Addie from the lake and drag her into the nearby woods she follows them, desperate to help her daughter. Once she enters the forest  she finds herself trapped in a sinister dream-like world where night never ends and Addie’s whereabouts remain hidden. She encounters a group of women who, like her, have been left to die and now seek to unleash their revenge on those who have harmed them. When they have Ben in their sights, Francesca realizes that if she is ever to escape this nightmare and save her daughter, she must first save the husband who abandoned them. But can she?