NATIONAL BESTSELLER PEOPLE PICK OPTIONED BY SISTER PICTURES FOR TELEVISION The discovery of a
girl abandoned by the side of the road threatens to unearth the long-buried secrets of a Texas
town s legendary cold case in this superb atmospheric novel from the internationally
bestselling author of Black-Eyed Susans If you only read one thriller this year let it be this
one. Psychologically absorbing original and atmospheric. I could not turn the pages fast
enough. Elin Hilderbrand #1 New York Times bestselling author of 28 Summers It s been a decade
since Trumanell Branson disappeared leaving only a bloody handprint behind. Her pretty face
still hangs like a watchful queen on the posters on the walls of the town s Baptist church the
police station and in the high school. They all promise the same thing: We will find you.
Meanwhile Tru s brother Wyatt lives as a pariah in the desolation of the old family house
cleared of wrongdoing by the police but tried and sentenced in the court of public opinion and
in a new documentary about the crime. When Wyatt finds a lost girl dumped in a field of
dandelions making silent wishes he believes she is a sign. The town s youngest cop Odette
Tucker believes she is a catalyst that will ignite a seething town still waiting for its own
missing girl to come home. But Odette can t look away. She shares a wound that won t close with
the mute one-eyed mystery girl. And she is haunted by her own history with the missing Tru.
Desperate to solve both cases Odette fights to save the lost girl in the present and to dig up
the shocking truth about a fateful night in the past the night her friend disappeared the
night that inspired her to become a cop the night that wrote them all a role in the town s
dark violent mythology. In this twisty psychological thriller Julia Heaberlin paints
unforgettable portraits of a woman and a girl who redefine perceptions of physical beauty and
strength. Praise for We Are All the Same in the Dark This chilling tale of buried sins is
relentlessly unpredictable. The Times (South Africa) [Julia] Heaberlin knows how to build to a
truly shocking twist how to break a reader s heart and then begin mending it. What s coming is
always unimaginable Odette s one-time therapist tells her and by that I mean just that. It
cannot be imagined. What s coming never acts or behaves the way we think it will. That s true
for this novel too. The Dallas Morning News
