Elle remembers her favorite color, what she likes to eat, what size shoes she wears--so why doesn't she remember her full name or how she got those bruises on her throat? And why, when Adam Ramsdell pulled her half-frozen body from the surf on a lonely California beach, did she scream as if she was being murdered? Elle finds refuge in Adam's home on the edge of Gothic, a village located between the steep lonely mountains and the raging Pacific Ocean. There, as pieces of Elle's memory return, she faces a grim truth--she knows a secret so dark it could get her killed. With her life, and Adam's, at stake, Elle must step from the shadows and seek the assassin who stalks her nightmares.