In Lykens, Pennsylvania, everyone knows who to blame when something disappears.
They call him Baldy-the enormous, silent man who lives in the mountain woods. When children go missing and bodies are found, the town's rumors harden into certainty.
Marvin Hudson once believed those stories. Then he discovers that Baldy belongs to the family he never knew, forcing him to question both his past and the people he trusts.
Laura Johnson has already lost her brother. Following her father's investigation through abandoned mining roads and buried family secrets, she begins to uncover a history of violence that reaches far beyond the stranger in the trees.
Then her own little boy is taken.
With time running out, Laura and Marvin must find the truth behind the disappearances-and discover whether the man everyone calls a monster is someone they should fear or their last hope.
Baldy is a dark suspense novel about family secrets, a town consumed by suspicion, and the desperate fight to bring a child home.