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One disappearance. Three decades. One night that never ends.

The most sinister event in Hemlock Circle happened in Ethan Marsh's backyard. One July night, ten-year-old Ethan and his best friend Billy fall asleep in a tent pitched in the Marsh family yard in a quiet, idyllic suburb. In the morning, Ethan wakes alone – during the night someone has cut the tent and abducted Billy, who is never heard of again.

Thirty years later, Ethan reluctantly returns to his childhood home. Haunted by nightmares and insomnia, he begins to notice strange things happening in the area at night, and signs of Billy's presence appear in his yard. Is someone playing a cruel joke? Or has Billy, long presumed dead, somehow returned to Hemlock Circle?

The closer Ethan gets to the truth, the more clearly he realizes that no place – whether a quiet forest or a suburban street – is entirely safe, and that the past has ways of haunting the present.

"Riley Sager in top form" – Lee Child

"Dark, eerie, and full of twists, but also bittersweet... Stunning characters, a brilliantly braided plot, an unexpected and moving ending." – Simone Saint James

"...about the complexity of friendship, those fleeting yet irrepressible feelings of childhood, and coping with profound loss." – USA Today