When the Cutter family's next-door-neighbours, the Langleys, are gunneddown in their house one hot August night, the Cutters' world is turnedupside down. That violent death should have come so close to them isshocking enough in suburban Promise Falls, but at least the Cutters canconsole themselves with the thought that lightning is unlikely to striketwice in the same place. Unless, of course, the killers went to the wronghouse... At first the idea seems crazy - but each of the Cutter family has asecret they'd rather keep buried. What was on that old computer teenageDerek and his friend Adam Langley had salvaged? And where is it now? Whathold does a local professor and bestselling author have on Eileen Cutter?And what does Jim Cutter know about Mrs Langley that even her husbanddidn't? To find out who killed the Langleys and why, everybody's secrets aregoing to have to come out. But the final secret - the secret that couldsave them or destroy them - is in the one place nobody would ever think oflooking...