Young Katy Meredith had never intended to return to the town where she had grown up. In New York she had built a new life of her own, safe from the terrifying memories of her childhood and from the tragedy that had threatened to scar her forever. Then the anonymous letters began to arrive, letters that revived the past with all its horrors. And Katy knew there was only one way to stop them. She had to leave the man she loved and go back...back tot the town she hated and feared...back to the people she dreaded to see again...back to whomever it was who had written the letters and now was awaiting her return to complete a diabolical design of evil....