In a riveting new thriller from America‎'‎s Queen of Suspense‎,‎ a young woman is ensnared into returning to a place she had wanted to leave behind forever ‎-‎- her childhood home‎.‎ There‎,‎ at the age of ten‎,‎ Liza Barton had shot her mother‎,‎ trying desperately to protect her from her estranged step‎-father‎,‎ Ted Cartwright‎.‎ Despite his claim that the shooting was a deliberate act‎,‎ the Juvenile Court ruled the death an accident‎.‎ Many people‎,‎ however‎,‎ agreed with Cartwright‎,‎ and the tabloids compared her to the infamous murderess Lizzie Borden‎,‎ pointing even to the similarity of their names‎.‎To erase Liza‎'‎s past‎,‎ her adoptive parents change her name to Celia‎.‎ At age twenty‎-eight‎,‎ a successful interior designer in Manhattan‎,‎ she marries a childless sixty‎-year‎-old widower‎,‎ Laurence Foster‎,‎ and they have a son‎.‎ Before their marriage‎,‎ she reveals to him her true identity‎.‎ Two years later‎,‎ on his deathbed‎,‎ he makes her swear never to tell anyone so that their son‎,‎ Jack‎,‎ will not carry the stigma of her past‎.‎ Two years later‎,‎ Celia is happily remarried‎.‎ Her peace of mind is shattered when her new husband‎,‎ Alex Nolan‎,‎ surprises her with a gift ‎-‎- the house in Mendham‎,‎ New Jersey‎,‎ where she killed her mother‎.‎ On the day they move in‎,‎ they find the words little lizzie‎'‎s place ‎-‎- beware painted on the lawn‎,‎ splotches of red paint all over the house‎,‎ and a skull and crossbones carved into the door‎.‎More and more‎,‎ there are signs that someone in the community knows Celia‎'‎s true identity‎.‎ When Georgette Grove‎,‎ the real estate agent who sold the house to Alex‎,‎ is brutally murdered and Celia is the first on the crime scene‎,‎ she becomes a suspect‎.‎ As Celia fights to prove her innocence‎,‎ she is not aware that she and her son‎,‎ Jack‎,‎ are now the targets of a killer‎.‎