This book was originally published under the pseudonym Leigh Nichols.

          It is a year since Tina Evans lost her little boy Danny in a tragic accident, a year since she began a painful process of forgetting, of trying to rebuild her life. Then a shattering message appears on the blackboard in Danny’s old room:

         NOT DEAD

          Is it someone’s idea of a grim joke? Or the tangible evidence of her own tormented unconscious? Or something… more?

          The search for an answer, the search for Danny, demands a courage and endurance beyond any Tina thought she possessed. Only her love for her son, her love for the one man who believes her, drives her on, through the neon clamour of Las Vegas nightlife, the sun-scorched desert, and the frozen mountains of the High Sierras. People die, coldly, brutally, as a buried truth struggles to surface. A truth so incredible, so frightening, so dangerous that its secret must be kept at the price of any life – any man, any woman… any child.