Kate Cypher returns home to Vermont, concerned about her mother's failing health. On the night she arrives, a young girl is murdered, a horrific crime that eerily mirrors another from Kate's childhood. Three decades earlier, her misfit friend Del, derided by her classmates as 'the potato girl', was brutally slain. The killer was never found, and Del achieved immortality in local legends and ghost stories. Now Kate is drawn irresistibly into the new murder investigation. Her past and present collide in terrifying ways. Nothing is quite what it seems. And the grim spectres of her childhood are far from forgotten...