NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • GOOD MORNING AMERICA BUZZ PICK • A total departure for the author
of The Paris Wife McLain’s emotionally intense and exceptionally well-written thriller
entwines its fictional crime with real cases.”—People (Book of the Week) NAMED ONE OF THE BEST
BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY MARIE CLAIRE • The kind of heart-pounding conclusion that thriller fans
crave . . . In the end a book full of darkness lands with a message of hope.”—The New York
Times Book Review This mystery will keep you guessing and stay with you long after you finish.
Dive in.”—Daily Skimm Anna Hart is a seasoned missing persons detective in San Francisco with
far too much knowledge of the darkest side of human nature. When tragedy strikes her personal
life Anna desperate and numb flees to the Northern California village of Mendocino to
grieve. She lived there as a child with her beloved foster parents and now she believes it
might be the only place left for her. Yet the day she arrives she learns that a local teenage
girl has gone missing. The crime feels frighteningly reminiscent of the most crucial time in
Anna’s childhood when the unsolved murder of a young girl touched Mendocino and changed the
community forever. As past and present collide Anna realizes that she has been led to this
moment. The most difficult lessons of her life have given her insight into how victims come
into contact with violent predators. As Anna becomes obsessed with saving the missing girl she
must accept that true courage means getting out of her own way and learning to let others in.
Weaving together actual cases of missing persons trauma theory and a hint of the metaphysical
this propulsive and deeply affecting novel tells a story of fate necessary redemption and
what it takes when the worst happens to reclaim our lives—and our faith in one another.
