By Lois Duncan

Publisher: Little. Brown & Co, Dell Books

Young adults, supernatural, suspense, romance novel

The lead heroine, Karen, of this story is an 18-year-old girl, who starts out as a babysitter to two small children. For a brief moment her boyfriend comes over as the children play outside, when her boyfriend finally leaves, Karen realizes that the oldest one of the two kids is missing. She searches everywhere and still no luck. Karen then calls the police.

An officer Ronald Wilson arrives at the scene and the most stunning attribute about the man was his vivid blue eyes. When Ronald wasn’t concerned about the missing boy Karen then starts having vision of Bobby, the little boy. Karen sees what he sees and what she sees is that he’s in a box. She then smells what Bobby smells, she then feels Bobby getting close. At the same time, she sees her Boyfriend Tim pull up. Running up to Tim, she asks him to open his trunk. When he did, to all of their surprise, Bobby was there, unconscious but alive.

This however intrigued office Wilson as to how she knew he was in the trunk. Even though he watched Karen as she mumbled to herself of what was happening as though she was in a trans. Officer Wilson then asked Karen to help him on a missing girl’s case. Now her mother is against her using her abilities, but Karen wanted to help. Officer Wilson then had taken Karen to a missing girl home. When she sees and feels nothing, they leave feeling in failure. While driving her back to her home Karen begins to feel sick then psychic messages began to fill Karens head, leading her to a riverbank. When they come across some sandals, visions of the missing girl’s day came flooding to Karen mind right up to the time of the missing girls’ death. Coming out of her trance the police then searched the riverbank and found the missing girl.

The following months, Karen graduates, her and Tim breakup and she finds work at a local daycare center. When Karen goes to walk home, she notices a little girl. She couldn’t see her face and the little girl doesn’t say a word but just points. Karen looks to see that the girl is pointing for her to go another way. By then it was too late, Karen was offered a ride home and she had taken it. Her destination was not her home, she was taken to an apartment of her two abductors. When she doesn’t give them what they want they end up knocking her out. When she comes around, she sees the faceless little girl who only shows her back this time, but recognizes the hair, stand before her. Again, the girl then points to the candle then the alarm.

Karen, as instructed, starts a fire and the little girl disappears. Once rescued Karen realizes that half the babies from her daycare are missing. One of the missing children is officers Wilsons Nephew. Feeling guilty and refusing her mother’s wishes again she helps Officer Wilson find these children.

The rest you’re just going to have to get the book and read for yourself. I have read this book 100 times to the point I wore out the spine of the book. Pages were falling out and I held it to together with tape. So, it just shows as to how much I love this book. I even talk about it with my coworkers, to the point where I think I annoyed them, but they ended up buying me a new book. Till this day I still reread it. I even kept my old book as a momentum.

This book was a nonstop suspense for me. A real page turner and I ‘d be happy to tell everyone and anyone about it.

If you end up reading it, let me know what you think. Even better, if you know any other books like this one let me know I would love to read more like this book. Happy reading!!!