Waves crash against the ferry as five passengers reach the North Sea island of Neuwerk on a stormy October day. For four of them, it's a return to a place that stirs dark memories: a summer thirty years ago when two teenagers vanished without a trace from their school camp. Back then, the four were also on Neuwerk—and one question has haunted them ever since: What really happened that fateful summer? When a hurricane hits and no one can leave the island, long-held secrets begin to surface. Because there is someone who knows the answer. And who will not rest until an old debt is finally paid... biography Romy Fölck was born in Meißen in 1974 and studied law in Dresden. She completed her studies in 2001 with the Second State Examination in Law. Since September 2006, the author has co-hosted 'Erlebnis Lesen' (Experience Reading), a combination of talk and reading, with presenter Thomas Kaminski in Dresden. Romy Fölck has lived and worked in Leipzig since 2002. New product