Snow’s dark thriller begins and ends with a missing child, thought to be drowned.

Set along the Montecito coastline noted as the “American Riviera,” Roxie Starr is four years old when she disappears at the beach, and despite not being at work that afternoon, her nanny Colleen is haunted by guilt that she could have saved her.

It also destroys her parents with their tony lifestyle and open marriage. Is this a situation which any of them can survive?

Then Colleen returns to the beach house before moving away and the impossible happens: she sees a child down by the water who is the spitting image of Roxie.

Post-traumatic syndrome, guilt, trauma all are reacted to differently by the involved characters. Long-held secrets are exposed.

And then a swooping ending that contains more than one twist makes this psychological suspense novel a winner.