In the summer of 1969 Ellison Graham and Annie Stephens have maintained their secret relationship for over a year. The ultra-religious Stephens's do not like their daughter's friend and have often considered the troubled teenager a bad influence not worth the volunteer hours they believe it is giving their daughter. When Ellison suddenly flees away from the small town of Hillwood, Virginia for New York in the middle of the night, it should be cause for celebration. It was just the beginning of a nightmare.Three years later in 1972 Ellison returns to Hillwood and the first thing on her agenda is reconnecting with Annie Stephens. She knocks on the door to the Stephens's longtime home, a stranger answers claiming not to know who Annie is, or that Mr. and Mrs. Stephens ever had a daughter at all. When Ellison is arrested and accused of assaulting Annie's father the night she left three years prior, she finds that no one in Hillwood remembers Annie. Sympathetic to her pain and confusion, Officer Cox and Officer Reed attempt to help find the missing person right as Ellison's worst fears begin unravelling.She believes that Annie's former preacher, Brother Michael, knows something but every effort to get into the church results in something worse happening until all hell breaks loose.Tatum Layne is a multi-genre self publishing writer. This is her eighth book, second novella, and first dive into the mystery-thriller genre.