Stolen in the Night

When Tess DeGraff was nine
years old and on a camping trip in New Hampshire with her family, a
stranger kidnapped and killed her sister Phoebe. Thanks to Tess's
eyewitness testimony, a man named Lazarus Abbott was arrested and
convicted for the heinous crime. But twenty years later, a test reveals
that Abbott's DNA does not match that of Phoebe's murderer. Driven by
her fear that she may have sent an innocent man to his death, Tess and
her adopted son, Erny, return to the New Hampshire town in which it all
happened years ago.

Stone Hill, New Hampshire, is still an
idyllic New England town. Tess's courageous mother, Dawn, who suffered
the violent loss of her daughter and the early death of her heartbroken
husband, now runs the charming Stone Hill Inn. Tess's older brother,
Jake, lives nearby with his wife, a local girl he fell in love with
during the trial of his sister's killer. While Tess's family stands by
her account of the crime, nerves are frayed throughout Stone Hill, and
others in town accuse her of lying and view her as a murderer.

In a race against time to untangle the truth about her sister's murder,
Tess encounters an anti-death penalty lawyer, Ben Webster, who
infuriates her but who also might open her eyes and her heart; a biased
police chief related to the Abbotts; and an unknown killer who has Tess
and Erny in his sights. With fascinating characters and a host of
shocking surprises, Stolen in the Night displays Patricia MacDonald's storytelling powers at an impressive new level.