Second Book in the Wood's End Series. Six year old Lydia vanishes from a family outing at the beach. It's the Fourth of July weekend and the idyllic seaside town is crowed with tourists. Some believe she drowned. Others thought she was kidnapped and murdered, while a few know exactly what happened. Twenty years later, Jared Shiel, returns to solve this cold case only to uncover a connection to the Stephanie Wodsende murder. Jared finds that some conspiracy theories are true. There are illuminati Satanists pulling strings at the highest echelons of power. A few are in a race to produce the last antichrist of world history while a kidnapped little girl has grown up to present a monumental threat as she crosses names off an assassin's list. But for Jared Shiel, nothing is what it seems at home in Wood's End.