The Year We Disappeared

When Cylin Busby was nine years old, she loved Izod shirts, the Muppets, and her pet box turtle. Then, in the space of a night, everything changed. On the midnight shift, her police officer father, John, was shot - not just shot in the line of duty but targeted at close range through his car window. The blasts tore through his face and left him clinging to life. Overnight, Cylin and her family went from being the "family next door" to one under twenty-four-hour armed guard, with police escorts to and from school and no contact with friends. It seemed only a matter of time before the shooter would come after John again - or someone else in the family. As their lives unraveled around them, the Busbys were forced to leave everything and everyone they had ever known and simply disappear.