One Year Gone

Jessica Moore's seventeen-year-old daughter, Wyn, vanished a year ago. The police called her a runaway, and the circumstances fit that reading well enough that Jessica slowly came to accept she might never see Wyn again.

Then Jessica's phone lights up with texts from Wyn's number. The messages are short and afraid. Wyn writes that the man holding her is going to kill her.

The texts carry a second warning: Jessica must not call the police, because he is one of them. The people who dismissed Wyn's disappearance are now the people Jessica cannot approach.

The book is a thriller built around one mother with a live lead and no official help. Time is short, and every step she takes depends on deciding whom she can trust.

The question driving the pages is what Jessica does with a message she cannot share with anyone in uniform, and who is willing to stand beside her while she does it.