This book gave me serious anxiety. Especially in the first half - if I wasn't a reader who rarely pulls a DNF (did not finish), I might have put this one down. A teenage girl and her boyfriend go missing one night, leaving their baby and the girl's mother behind. No one seems very worried and the friends they were with seem a bit tight lipped about that night. Even the boy's mother thinks they just ran away. Kim, the girl's mother, tries everything to keep the investigation going, but one year later, still nothing.
Meanwhile, a young writer moves to town with her partner to start a new job. She is intrigued by the mystery of the younsters' disappearances, especially when she finds a piece of evidence relating to their disappearance on her property. The book goes back in time to the months prior to the disappearance to give the reader some insight into what really happened, and the back and forth was a bit confusing here. The second half of the book picks up somewhat as events are revealed, but overall, this one was not my favorite. As the mother of teenage girls, I found this frankly terrifying to think about how much kids keep from their parents, and how much parents really could help those kids if they could just open up.
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