Sanctuary. Successful photographer Jo Ellen Hathaway thought she had escaped that house long ago. It was where she spent her loneliest years, after her family was shattered by the sudden and unexplained disappearance of her mother. Yet the sprawling southern resort off the coast of Georgia continues to haunt her dreams. Even more haunting are the pictures that someone is sending her - strange close-ups, candid shots, and finally, the most shocking and heartbreaking portrait of all a photograph of her long-lost mother...naked, beautiful, and dead. Now Jo realizes that it is time to return to Sanctuary. The island inn, run by her bitterly estranged family, brings back painful memories as she is enmeshed once again in the troubled relationships she has struggled so long and hard to forget. With the help of one man, she must learn the truth about who is stalking her - and about the tragic past that torments her family still. But the menace that drove Jo back to Sanctuary has followed her there. And those on the island will learn that Sanctuary may be the most dangerous place of all....