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 wronghouseż At first the idea seems crazy. But gradually we discover that each of theCutter family has a secret they'd rather keep buried. What was on that oldcomputer teenage Derek and his friend Adam Langley had salvaged? And whereis it now? What hold does a local professor and bestselling author have onEileen Cutter? And what does Jim Cutter know about Mrs Langley that evenher husband didn'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...