The #1 New York Times bestseller from Stephen Kinga tale of grief, loves enduring bonds, the haunting secrets of the past, and an innocent child caught in a terrible crossfire.

Four years after the sudden death of his wife, bestselling novelist Mike Noonan is still grieving. Unable to write, and plagued by vivid nightmares set at the western Maine summerhouse he called Sara Laughs, Mike reluctantly returns to the lakeside getaway. There, he finds his beloved Yankee town held in the grip of a powerful millionaire, Max Devore, whose vindictive purpose is to take his three-year-old granddaughter, Kyra, away from her widowed young mother, Mattie. As Mike is drawn into Mattie and Kyras struggleand as he falls in love with both of themhe is also drawn into the mystery of Sarah Laughsnow the site of ghostly visitations and escalating terrors. What are the forces that have been unleashed hereand just what do they want of Mike Noonan?