What’s Done in Darkness

Abducted as a teenager,a woman must now confront her past and untangle the truth of what really happened to her in this dark thriller from the author of The Wolf Wants In. ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: St. Louis Post-DispatchSelf ΓÇó ΓÇ£Compulsivelypropulsively readable.ΓÇ¥ΓÇöLaura Lippmanbestselling author of Lady in the Lake Seventeen-year-old Sarabeth has become increasingly rebellious since her parents found God and moved their family to a remote Arkansas farmstead where sheΓÇÖs forced to wear long dressesfollow strict rulesand grow her hair down to her waist. SheΓÇÖs all but given up on escaping the farm when a masked man appears one stifling summer morning and snatches her out of the cornfield. A week after her abductionsheΓÇÖs found alongside a highway in a bloodstained dressΓÇöaliveΓÇöbut her family treats her like sheΓÇÖs taintedand thereΓÇÖs little hope of finding her captorwho kept Sarabeth blindfolded in the dark the entire timenever uttering a word. One good thing arises from the horrific ordeal: a chance to leave the Ozarks and start a new life. Five years laterSarabeth is struggling to keep her past buried when investigator Nick Farrow calls. Convinced that her case is connected to the strikingly similar disappearance of another young girlFarrow wants SarabethΓÇÖs helpand heΓÇÖll do whatever it takes to get iteven if that means dragging her back to the last place she wants to goΓÇöthe hills and hollers of hometo face her estranged family and all her deepest fears. In this riveting novel from Laura McHughblood ties and buried secrets draw a young woman back into the nightmare of her past to save a missing girlunaware of what awaits her in the darkness.