Description:
It's 1992. Agent Adams is handed another missing persons case--this time, it's Julia Monroe, a twenty-four-year-old Harvard graduate who had only just returned to her family's Bethesda home. Julia vanishes without a trace. No signs of forced entry. No goodbye note. Just an empty bedroom and a family unraveling by the hour. The deeper Adams digs, the stranger the story becomes. Julia's mother is more irritated than distraught. Her brother recalls a gardener with a too-slick smile. And the timeline doesn't add up--Julia was last seen walking in the opposite direction of where she said she was going. Then, a quiet discovery upends the entire investigation. A single clue leads Agent Adams to a chilling realization: Julia's disappearance occurred less than ten miles from the former home of Charlotte Mercer, a child who vanished without explanation six years earlier. Coincidence--or something much darker? Based on true events.
Brief description: Nadija Mujagic is an indie author of several psychological thrillers, where she weaves dark twists with emotionally layered characters. A longtime storyteller, she's finally putting to use the creative writing skills she honed during her college years. When she's not plotting her next twist, you'll find her on long walks or jamming on her bass guitar. She lives with her husband, son, and their remarkably clever standard poodle, Koko.