Susan Speranza was born in NYC, grew up on Long Island, and went to college and for a time worked in Manhattan enjoying the hectic pace and cultural amenities of the city. After a great upheaval, she escaped the urban/suburban jungle and claimed her piece of the country in Vermont, where she has now lived happily for 20+ years. In between the demands of life, she authored two other books, The City of Light, a dystopian story about the end of Western Civilization and The Tale of Lucia Grandi, The Early Years, a novel about a dysfunction suburban family. She also wrote numerous articles, poems, and short stories, all of which have been published. Along the way, she managed to collect a couple of Master’s degrees.

Francesca Bodin’s near-perfect life is upended when a snowmobiling accident traps her, her husband, Ben and their four-year old daughter, Addie in a frozen lake. Ben gets out, leaving her and Addie to die.

Francesca believes she sees their dog pull Addie from the lake and drag her into the nearby woods. She struggles out of the icy waters and follows them, but once she enters the forest, she finds herself trapped in a sinister dream-like world where night never ends, where Addie’s whereabouts remain hidden from her, and where she encounters a group of women who, like Francesca, have been left to die and now seek to unleash their revenge on those who have harmed them. When they have Ben in their sights, Francesca realizes that if she is ever to escape this nightmare and save her daughter, she must first save the husband who abandoned them.