Bring Her Home

David Bell's 2017 thriller opens with a father already in mourning. A year and a half after his wife's death, Bill Price's fifteen-year-old daughter Summer and her best friend Haley disappear. Days later the two girls are found in a city park: Haley is dead at the scene, and Summer is beaten beyond recognition and barely alive.

Bill keeps vigil at the hospital, where the only sound his unconscious daughter can make is a single, chilling word — no. The longer he sits with her, the more he wonders what happened to her, and whether the bandaged girl in the bed is even his daughter at all.

As troubling questions about Summer's life surface, Bill discovers that both the living and the dead have secrets, and that the search for the truth will tear open old wounds at the heart of his family.