
Lois & Carly-May are just twelve years old when they're abducted driven across the country & imprisoned in a remote isolated hunting lodge for two months That summer under the watchful gaze of their kidnapper they form a bond which will never be broken Decades later both Lois & Carly-May have built new lives & identities for themselves Lois a professor of literature is shaken when an obsessive student reminds her of the man who kidnapped her a man she saw shoot himself on the porch twenty years before Out in LA Carly-May is drinking too much & watching her beauty-queen looks fade clinging to the last remnants of a once-promising career as an actress When she reads a shockingly familiar screenplay she warily she takes a role she knows is based on events from her own life Increasingly haunted by the devastating experience that shaped both their lives Lois & Carly-May are drawn together again in a world that both echoes & falsifies their beautiful terrible story An enthralling portrait of two haunted young women this remarkable debut novel explores the very nature of survival