From the award-winning author of Hollow Beauty and Junior Missing comes a haunting historical mystery set during the surge of the nation’s most notorious serial killers, when a teenage girl disappears and one friend refuses to stop searching.

March, 1980: Fifteen-year-old Rosie Fields vanishes.

Bobby was one of the last to see her. Although the police say she probably ran away, Bobby knows better. Something dreadful happened to his friend. And now he won’t stop trying to save her.

He owes her his life.

Months pass. The case goes cold. But Bobby keeps digging. Why did Rosie lie about where she was going that night? Did she get into the black car with those two men? In a decade haunted by satanic panic and cults that exploited vulnerable youth, was Rosie just another forgotten victim?

Then Bobby makes a discovery—one so shocking it shatters everything he thought he knew about his town, his neighbors, and his friends.

Layered and compelling, Khristina Chess’ gripping new novel renders a nostalgic time before AMBER alerts and 24-hour news cycles, when carefree kids roamed neighborhoods with little supervision and always returned home in time for supper. Except sometimes they didn’t.

Cover illustration by Ramona Marinescu