by Laura Ruby
First published 2016
Finn O'Sullivan watches a man drag beautiful Roza from the cornfields of Bone Gap. The kidnapper's face blurs in Finn's memory like smoke. When Finn tells his story, the townspeople shake their heads. Bone Gap swallows people regularly. Girls disappear through the cracks and gaps that give the town its name. Roza just became another casualty of a place where vanishing feels inevitable. Finn refuses to accept their explanations. He knows what he saw. His brother Sean has given up hope, but Finn carries the weight of being Roza's only witness. Petey Willis, whose father keeps bees, sees something in Finn that others miss. She believes his fractured memories hold real truth, not delusion. The town's gaps run deeper than geography. Finn and Sean have survived abandonment before. Now Roza's absence tears open old wounds about family and loss. As Petey draws closer to Finn, the mystery of what happened in those cornfields slowly emerges. The truth about Roza's disappearance will force Bone Gap to confront the spaces between what people see and what actually exists.
Genres: mystery, fantasy, contemporary, magical-realism
Vibes: atmospheric, suspenseful, thought-provoking
Tropes: found-family, unreliable-narrator
Setting: Bone Gap
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