Having been the seventeenth person to fall victim to a notorious serial killer, and yet finally survived, Ellery knows the serial killer milieu, and sees the disappearances that occur in her town every year around her birthday for what they are. As these events close in, Ellery reaches out to the FBI agent who rescued her from the killers closet. Ominous smalltown crime, winning the 2016 MB/MWA First Crime Novel Award.