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One year after escaping her abductor, a woman searches for the girl who didn’t get away in this #1 bestselling forensic thriller laden with grisly details, high tension, and jaw-dropping twists for fans of Riley Sager, Jeneva Rose, and Alex Michaelides.
**NOW A DELUXE PAPERBACK with stenciled edges and designed interior!** Is she a survivor? Or a liar? The night they go missing, high school seniors Nicole Cutty and Megan McDonald are at a beach party in their small town of Emerson Bay, North Carolina. Police launch a massive search, but hope is almost lost–until Megan escapes from a bunker deep in the woods. . . . A year later, the bestselling account of her ordeal has made Megan a celebrity. It’s a triumphant story, except for one inconvenient detail: Nicole is still missing. Nicole’s older sister, Livia, a fellow in forensic pathology, expects that one day soon Nicole’s body will be found and her sister’s fate determined. Instead, the first clue comes from another body–that of a young man connected to Nicole’s past. Livia reaches out to Megan to learn more about that fateful night. Other girls have disappeared, and she’s increasingly sure the cases are connected. Megan knows more than she revealed in her book. Flashes of memory are pointing to something more monstrous than she described. And the deeper she and Livia dig, the more they realize that sometimes true terror lies in finding exactly what you’ve been looking for . . .Binding Type: Paperback
Author: Charlie Donlea
Published: 08/25/2026
Publisher: Kensington Publishing Corporation
ISBN: 9781496765598
Pages: 432
Weight: 0.81lbs
About the Author
Charlie Donlea is the USA Today, IndieBound, and #1 internationally bestselling author of critically acclaimed, propulsive thrillers that have been praised for their “soaring pace, teasing plot twists” (BookPage) and his talent for writing an ending that “makes your jaw drop” (The New York Times Book Review). Published in nearly 40 countries and translated into more than a dozen languages, his books have sold nearly 2.5 million copies in the U.S. alone. He is a Nero Award finalist and screen adaptations are under way, with Twenty Years Later in development as a TV series produced by Impossible Dream Entertainment (BlacKkKlansman, Get Out) with Adam Arkin (The Offer, The Night Agent, Succession) directing and executive producing, and The Girl Who Was Taken optioned by Armory Films (The Peanut Butter Falcon, Mudbound). Donlea was born and raised in Chicago, where he continues to live with his wife and two children. Visit him online at CharlieDonlea.com.
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