Jenny Milchman discusses her mystery Ruin Falls
Thu 8/21 7pm – 8pm
Jenny Milchman
discusses her mystery Ruin Falls
Ballantine Books 9780345549075
Liz Daniels has every reason to be happy about setting
off on a rare family vacation, leaving behind her remote home in the Adirondack
Mountains for a while. Instead, she feels uneasy. Her children, eight-year-old
Reid and six-year-old Ally, have met their paternal grandparents only a handful
of times. But Liz’s husband, Paul, has decided that, despite a strained
relationship with his mother and father, they should visit the farm in western
New York where he spent his childhood.
On their way to the farm, the family stops at a hotel for the night. In the
morning, when Liz goes to check on her sleeping children, all her anxiety comes
roaring back: Ally and Reed are nowhere to be found. Blind panic slides into
ice-cold terror as the hours tick by without anyone finding a trace of the kids.
Soon, Paul and Liz are being interviewed by police, an Amber Alert is issued,
and detectives are called in.
Frantic worry and helplessness threaten to overtake Liz’s mind—but in a sudden,
gut-wrenching instant she realizes that it was no stranger who slipped into the
hotel room that night. Someone she trusted completely has betrayed her. Though
she knows that Ally and Reid are safe, Liz will stop at nothing to find them
and get them back. From her guarded in-laws’ unwelcoming farmhouse to the deep
woods of her own hometown, Liz follows the threads of a terrible secret to
uncover a hidden world created from dreams and haunted by nightmares.