Echoes Of Fate

A stunning look into the dark recesses of the human heart and mind a brooding reflection on the evils that are sometimes just a breath away. As a veteran homicide detective in Sydney, Australia, Kate Summers solves mysteries for a living. Yet only a handful of people know that a generation earlier Kate herself stood at the center of one of the most tantalizing unsolved cases in the recent annals of American crime and remains the largest police investigation in the state's history. At the age of twelve, Kate, and six playmates wandered into the woods near her home in the town of Duvall, Washington. Hours after her close friend had been reported missing, then found murdered, Kate and Bryce were found unhurt but hiding in fear standing near a trail of blood, so deeply traumatized that they did not know a single detail of what had happened. The four other children went missing and were never found.

Kate has spent twenty years trying to bury her past, but if her line of work has shown her anything it is that some secrets refuse to remain hidden. Her long-stifled anxieties abruptly surface when the battered bodies of three twelve-year-old girls are discovered at the same time floating in a lake in the same woods where Kate had lost her friends. When Kate's partner Bryce Karzen requested her to take the case, Kate embarks on a treacherous odyssey through repressed memories and contemporary horror, sending her emotions into a bottomless abyss of despair. How far will two detectives go when all leads have been exhausted?