After struggling to write following the deaths of his wife and son, English professor Connor Nye publishes his first novel, a thriller about the murder of a young woman. There's just one problem: Connor didn't write the book. His missing student did. And then she appears on his doorstep, threatening to expose him. Connor's problems escalate when the police insist details in the novel implicate him in an unsolved murder. Soon Connor faces an impossible dilemma - admit he didn't write the book and lose his job or keep up the lie and risk everything. When another murder occurs, Connor must clear his name by unraveling the secrets buried in his student's manuscript.-- Back cover.