Middle of the Night

THE INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER In the latest jaw-dropping thriller from New York Times bestselling author Riley Sager,a man must contend with the long-ago disappearance of his childhood best friendΓÇöand the dark secrets lurking just beyond the safe confines of his picture-perfect neighborhood. The worst thing to ever happen on Hemlock Circle occurred in Ethan MarshΓÇÖs backyard. One July nightten-year-old Ethan and his best friend and neighborBillyfell asleep in a tent set up on a manicured lawn in a quietquaint New Jersey cul-de-sac. In the morningEthan woke up alone. During the nightsomeone had sliced the tent open with a knife and taken Billy. He was never seen again. Thirty years laterEthan has reluctantly returned to his childhood home. Plagued by bad dreams and insomniahe begins to notice strange things happening in the middle of the night. Someone seems to be roaming the cul-de-sac at odd hoursand signs of BillyΓÇÖs presence keep appearing in EthanΓÇÖs backyard. Is someone playing a cruel prank? Or has Billylong thought to be deadsomehow returned to Hemlock Circle? The mysterious occurrences prompt Ethan to investigate what really happened that nighta quest that reunites him with former friends and neighbors and leads him into the woods that surround Hemlock Circle. Woods where Billy claimed ghosts roamed and where a mysterious institute does clandestine research on a crumbling estate. The closer Ethan gets to the truththe more he realizes that no placeΓÇöbe it quiet forest or suburban streetΓÇöis completely safe. And that the past has a way of haunting the present.