Joanne McMullen´s fears for her sister´s sanity have brought her to remote King´s Island, Maine. Mary´s grief over the loss of her child is threatening to send her over the edge--and her insistence that she has heard an eerie, childlike wailing in the woods fuels Joanne´s anxiety. And now Mary´s taken to disappearing at midnight in search of the source of the heartrending moans. But it´s not just her sister´s encroaching madness that is chilling Joanne´s blood--it´s her own. Because suddenly, impossibly, she also hears the crying child.