The Girl Who Was Taken

The night they go missing, high-school seniors Nicole Cutty and Megan McDonald are abducted from a beach party in the small town of Emerson Bay, North Carolina. Police launch a massive search, but hope is almost lost—until Megan miraculously surfaces after escaping from a bunker deep in the woods.

A year later, Megan’s bestselling memoir of her ordeal makes her a national celebrity—but Nicole is still missing. Nicole’s older sister, Livia, a forensic-pathology fellow, expects that one day soon she will perform the autopsy that determines her sister’s fate. Instead, a body arrives at the morgue that offers the first real clue.

As Livia and Megan join forces, they discover that Megan knows more than she let on—and flashes of memory hint at something far darker and more monstrous than the published story describes.