More than two years ago, 17-year-old Ellie Black disappeared during a party. Her broken phone was found a short time later, but the clues stopped there. Her family never stopped hoping, but everyone knew the odds of a missing girl being found after so much time had passed.
Yet one evening, Ellie sees some hikers in a Washington forest. She is haggard, malnourished, afraid, overly sensitive to light, but she is able to remember her name.
Detective Chelsey Calhoun investigated Ellie’s disappearance, and she cannot believe that the young woman is still alive. As she tries to figure out what happened to Ellie, where she was held captive, and who was responsible, she starts to believe there’s so much more Ellie isn’t telling her. She’s determined to figure out what Ellie is hiding, no matter that her bosses, Ellie’s family, and Ellie herself try to convince her to stop digging.
For Chelsey, this case is so much more than the return of a missing girl. This is also about her older sister, Lydia, who vanished when they were teenagers. And this is about trying to protect other girls from being taken.
"She would ask the media, the world: When will it be enough? How society accepts women dying at the hands of men. Chelsey mourns girlhood."
Tension-filled and twisty, this is a fantastic book. The characters were really complex and will stick in my head. It’s quite dark, and it may be triggering for some, but Emiko Jean has written a thriller with a heart, a book which makes you think.
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