Why a Booktrail?
2000s: Two girls kidnapped years earlier have now built new lives, but their old ones come back to haunt
Pretty Is
What you need to know before your trail
Lois and Carly-May were only 12 years old when they were both abducted then driven half way across the country before being kept in a remote lodge for two months. They form a bond, forced together under such extreme situations and this bond never breaks, even years later when both girls have formed new lives for themselves. Lois now a teacher thinks she sees a student who reminds her of the kidnapper, but she saw him shoot himself so that can’t be right. Meanwhile in Los Angeles, Carly once a popular actress about to star in a role which has suspicious similarities to her own troubled past.
The girls it seems are destined to meet again.
Travel Guide
The setting of the novel is the kidnapping scenario which is as you can imagine bleak and horrific. A remote hunting lodge, a house under the watchful eye over everything they say and do, the fear and not knowing what is going on. The childhood innocence mixed with the confusion many years late of what went on.
Two children walking home, a car cruising down the street and then two children taken from the streets of Connecticut and Nebraska. A realisation that the car that piked them up had New York plates. Such a small detail to be remembered all those years later.
Their new home – or rather prison – is dark and glom but neither girl can escape for various reasons. Then they are placed back into society. But those woods, that hut where they were held, they might be removed from that situation but what is inside their heads still lingers.
Can you ever escape the confines of your own mind and your own deep dark thoughts?
Where Next?
