Kate Hamer Volgorde van de boeken (chronologisch)

Beth is desperate to return to normality. After a years-long ordeal, her daughter is finally home and safe. But Carmel has questions she can't ignore about the cult that kidnapped her, and about the preacher who gave her another girl's name.Found, she must survive a miracle.Digging into her past, Carmel uncovers secrets which suggest that she wasn't the only lost girl - and which puts her in danger all over again. While her mother struggles to salvage the safety they've only just found, Carmel tries to come to terms with who she has become. One question, a mystery at the heart of her disappearance as a child, haunts her:What happened to the other lost girls?

Phoebe stands on Pulteney Bridge, tights gashed from toe to thigh. The shock of mangled metal and blood-stained walls flashes through her mind as she tries to cover her face so she won't be recognised. It wouldn't do to be spotted looking like this. She's missing a shoe. She feels sick. Phoebe thought murder and murder happened. Thoughts are just thoughts, they said. Now she knows they were wrong. At home, Phoebe arranges the scissors and knives so they point toward her mother's room. She is exhausted, making sure there's no trace of herself - not a single hair, not even her scent - left anywhere in the house. She must not let her thoughts unravel, because if they do, there's no telling who might be caught in the crossfire, and Phoebe will have to live with the consequences.

Με λένε Ρούμπι. Ζω με την Μπάρμπαρα και τον Μικ. Δεν είναι οι πραγματικοί μου γονείς, αλλά μου λένε τι να κάνω και τι να πω. Πρέπει να πω ότι οι μελανιές στα χέρια μου και το μαύρο μάτι προήλθαν από μια πτώση στις σκάλες. Αλλά υπάρχουν πράγματα που δεν θα πω. Δεν θα τους πω ότι σκοπεύω να αναζητήσω τους πραγματικούς μου γονείς. Δεν λέω λέξη για τον Σκιά, που κάθεται στις σκάλες, ή για την Κυρία Σφήκα που είδα στο δρόμο για το κρεβάτι. Είπα στον Μικ ότι είδα τη γυναίκα με το φόρεμα από βούτυρο, κρεμασμένη ανάποδα από τη ζώνη ασφαλείας βαθιά στο δάσος πίσω από το σπίτι μας. Του είπα ότι είδα τον θάνατο να βγαίνει από αυτήν. Είπε ότι θα μου έδινε μετάλλιο για το ψέμα. Δεν έλεγα ψέματα. Είμαι κυνηγός χαμένων ψυχών και θα είμαι με την πραγματική μου οικογένεια. Και δεν θα αφήσω τον Μικ να με σταματήσει.

"On Ruby's thirteenth birthday, a wish she didn't even know she had suddenly comes true: the couple who raised her aren't her parents at all. Her real mother and father are out there somewhere, and Ruby becomes determined to find them. Venturing into the forest with nothing but a suitcase and the company of her only true friend-- the imaginary Shadow Boy-- Ruby discovers a group of siblings who live alone in the woods. The children take her in, and while they offer the closest Ruby's ever had to a family, Ruby begins to suspect that they might need her even more than she needs them. And it's not always clear what's real and what's not-- or who's trying to help her and who might be a threat. Told from shifting timelines, and the alternating perspectives of teenage Ruby; her mother, Anna; and even the Shadow Boy ..."--