9781501165429 (ISBN10: 1501165429)
June 2020
About:
Everyone knows the story of “the girl from Widow Hills.”
Arden Maynor was just a child when she was swept away while sleepwalking during a terrifying rainstorm and went missing for days. Strangers and friends, neighbors and rescue workers, set up search parties and held vigils, praying for her safe return. Against all odds, she was found, alive, clinging to a storm drain. The girl from Widow Hills was a living miracle. Arden’s mother wrote a book. Fame followed. Fans and fan letters, creeps, and stalkers. And every year, the anniversary. It all became too much. As soon as she was old enough, Arden changed her name and disappeared from the public eye.
Now a young woman living hundreds of miles away, Arden goes by Olivia. She’s managed to stay off the radar for the last few years. But with the twentieth anniversary of her rescue approaching, the media will inevitably renew its interest in Arden. Where is she now? Soon Olivia feels like she’s being watched and begins sleepwalking again, like she did long ago, even waking outside her home. Until late one night she jolts awake in her yard. At her feet is the corpse of a man she knows—from her previous life, as Arden Maynor.
And now, the girl from Widow Hills is about to become the center of the story, once again, in this propulsive page-turner from suspense master Megan Miranda.
My Review:
The plot is brilliant, glimpses of Ardens life 20 years previous, of how trauma affects someone long after the event. The step counting, always aware of a need for an escape route.
Arden changing her name and becoming a different person, one who has settled into a life as Olivia that feels safe, but she drops her guard and now the past she’d moved on from, the media intrusion she left behind is about to be blown wide open.
Who can she trust? She second guesses everyone’s motive, constantly looking for ways to escape.
The tension and gradual build up is well written. It has you crashing along as Olivia’s panic attacks increase, and her past catches up with her present.
