Many thanks to NetGalley and Random House for gifting me a digital ARC of the new book by Laura McHugh - a new to me author. 4.5 stars rounded up for a book I couldn't put down!
Sarabeth is almost 18 and living on a remote farm in Arkansas with her family. Her parents moved there after her dead had an affair; they both became very religious. Suddenly, Sarabeth's world as she knew it with friends, school, TV was gone. Anxious to leave before her parents marry her off, Sarabeth is kidnapped from her family's farm stand and held for a week, shackled somewhere in a basement. But the police don't believe her when she is found bloody at a rest stop. Five years later, Sarah, as she is now known, is living in Missouri and working at an animal shelter. She struggles with PTSD from her ordeal and can't let anyone in her life. When she gets a call from Nick Farrow, an investigator tracking down another missing girl, she gets talked into going back to her hometown to try and find some answers.
I loved this book! It's fairly short, which is good because you won't want to stop reading until the end. And that ending - wow! The book alternates chapters between Sarah in the present time and Sarabeth in the past, so the reader is privy to all that led up to her abduction and afterwards. I don't want to give anything else away - but you need to read this book! Definitely an author that I will be looking for in the future.
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