Down the Darkest Road

#1 New York Times bestselling author Tami Hoag
returns to the all-too-terrifying world of Oak Knoll.

Four years after the unsolved disappearance of her sixteen-year-old daughter, Lauren Lawton
is the only one still chasing the ghosts of her perfect Santa Barbara life. The world has given
her daughter up for dead. Her husband ended his own life in the aftermath. Even Lauren's
younger daughter is desperate to find what's left of the childhood she hasn't been allowed
to have.
Lauren knows exactly who took her oldest child, but there is not a shred of evidence against
the man. Even as he stalks her family, Lauren is powerless to stop him. The Santa Barbara
police are handcuffed by the very laws they are sworn to uphold. Looking for a fresh start in
a town with no memories, Lauren and her younger daughter Leah move to idyllic Oak Knoll.
But when Lauren's suspect turns up in the same city, it feels to all the world that history
is about to repeat itself. Leah Lawton will soon turn sixteen, and Oak Knoll has a cunning
predator on the hunt.
Sheriff's detective Tony Mendez and his team begin to close in on the suspected killer, desperate
to keep the young women of their picturesque town safe. But as the investigators sift
through the murky circumstances of an increasingly disturbing case, a stunning question
changes everything they thought they knew. In Down the Darkest Road, #1 New York Times
bestseller Tami Hoag proves again why she is one of the world's most beloved storytellers.

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