Your daughter doesnβt come home one night from her summer job. You go there looking for her. No oneβs seen here. But itβs worse than that. No oneβs ever seen her. So where has she been going every day? And where is she now?
In Linwood Barclayβs riveting new thriller, an ordinary manβs desperate search for his daughter leads him into a dark world of corruption, exploitation, and murder. Tim Blake is about to learn that the people you think you know best are the ones harboring the biggest secrets.
Tim is an average guy. He sells cars. He has an ex-wife. Sheβs moved in with a man whose moody son spends more time online than he should. His girlfriend is turning out to be a bit of a flake. Itβs not a life without hassles, but nothing will prepare Tim for the nightmare thatβs about to begin.
Sydney vanishes into thin air. At the hotel where she supposedly worked, no one has ever heard of her. Even her closest friends seem to be at a loss. Now, as the days pass without word, Tim must face the fact that not only is Sydney missing, but that the daughter heβs loved and thought he knew is a virtual stranger.
As he retraces Sydneyβs steps, Tim discovers that the suburban Connecticut town he always thought of as idyllic is anything but. What he doesnβt know is that his every move is being watched. There are others who want to find Syd as much as Tim does.
But theyβre not planning a Welcome Home party.
The closer Tim comes to the truth, the closer he comes to every parentβs worst nightmareβand the kind of evil only a parentβs love has a chance in hell of stopping.
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