In this debut novel, Randall Sturgess is hired to track down two children who were sent to live with their aunt and uncle in Northern Ontario during WWII. Plagued by nightmares and the feeling that he is being watched, he starts to poke into the secrets of the aunt and uncle and a group of permanent guests who all refuse to help, searching the woods and lake for signs of the children. Sturgess grew up in Vancouver, BC, and Edmonton, AB, and now lives in Toronto, ON.