First published 2016
Aurora Teagarden enjoys the early weeks of pregnancy when her world turns upside down. Four children vanish from school in her small Georgia town, including her teenage brother Phillip. The local police search the county while Aurora and her husband Robin Crusoe, a successful novelist, launch their own investigation. Aurora faces troubling possibilities. Did her father's gambling debts put Phillip in danger? Or did Phillip, still new to the community and largely unknown to his family, take the other children himself? Time runs short as Aurora digs deeper into the mystery. She must uncover the truth behind the disappearances before the missing children face worse consequences and before she becomes a target herself.
Genres: suspense, mystery, contemporary, thriller
Vibes: intimate, suspenseful, thought-provoking
Tropes: found-family, unreliable-narrator
Setting: Georgia
Period: Contemporary
229 pages · Hardcover · Minotaur Books