From back cover:

Coming south into Lues, Josie had strange flashes of recognition. Certain turns in the road, certain smells set her heart pounding ... the sand beside the creek reminded her of her last and only real memory of Lues. A memory which would be twenty years old in April.
When Josie Darling takes up a post at the small midweastern University of Lues, she knows it's a job going nowhere. But the town was her home for the first seven years of her life - until the brutal murder of her mother wiped out all her memories.
The hostility and suspicion she encounters come as no surprise, but Josie little expects obsence notes threatening her life. No one in Lues should be aware of her history - but someone seems to know all about her.
As Josie digs into the past, meeting lies and evasion from townspeople and collegues alike, she realises she will need every ounce of her initiative to find out the truth. But she runs the risk that in solving her mother's murder, she is precipitating her own ...