Missing

Mark Burroughs and his sister Cara come home to an empty house. Their parents have not returned, have not phoned and have left no note. The two teenagers are not alarmed at first, since their parents have stayed out late before.

Then the trouble spreads. Mark's girlfriend Gena ends their relationship and vanishes soon after. The police show little interest in searching for the missing parents. A cousin who boards in the Burroughs house is always watching, and Mark and Cara suspect he is spying on them.

A murder raises the stakes. Mark and Cara come to understand that someone wants them gone as well, and they do not know the reason. The answer, they learn, is tied to the Fear Street Woods, and they have to reach it before the person hunting them reaches them.

This is a teen horror mystery set on Fear Street, the cursed neighborhood behind R. L. Stine's long-running scary series. It builds suspicion in a family home, adds a string of unexplained disappearances, and moves toward a threat in the woods. The tone is dark and suspenseful, with a steady drip of questions about who can be trusted.