CHARLIE DONLEA
INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLING AUTHOR
“A fast-moving
page-turner. . . .
Donlea skillfully
maximizes suspense by juggling narrators and time all the way to the shocking final twists.”
—Publishers Weekly
“Well worth the read.”
—Booklist
“Donlea’s sophomore effort is solid. He keeps the reader guessing and second-guessing until the end, thanks to an expertly crafted abundance of potential suspects.”
—Library Journal
#TheGirlWhoWasTaken
Now in Paperback
with a stunning new cover!
06.29.21
Her
Truth
Was Only
Half The
Story. . .
THE GIRL WHO WAS TAKEN
A Story of Two Girls . . .
The One Who Returns
and the One Who Doesn't
S U M M A R Y
Available in Trade Paperback
06.29.21
Her truth is only half the story . . .
Two abducted girls–one who returns, and one who doesn't.
Megan McDonald and Nicole Cutty are high school seniors when they are abducted from a small North Carolina town. Two weeks later, Megan miraculously reappears, having escaped from a bunker hidden deep in the woods. Nicole is never seen again.
One year later, Megan has written a bestselling memoir about her time in captivity, and about her escape. As the memoir climbs the best-sellers lists, Megan is transformed from local hero to national celebrity.
Dr. Livia Cutty is a fellow in forensic pathology, training at the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner in North Carolina. Her sister, Nicole, has been missing a year when the body of a young man – an apparent suicide – shows up in her morgue and offers Livia the first clue to Nicole’s fate. The body also tips Livia off that everything in Megan McDonald's bestselling memoir is a lie.
TWO GIRLS
ARE TAKEN . . .
ONLY ONE
RETURNS
