Two years ago, on a trip to Seattle to visit her brother Aidan, fifteen-year-old Scarlett vanished into thin air. After years of false leads and dead ends, Aidan has almost given up hope. But then a woman sees a girl running for her life across a forest clearing in Northern California. She is convinced the girl is the missing Scarlett. But could it really be her? Heading south, Aidan finds a fire-ravaged town covered in missing-teenager posters. The locals seem afraid, the sheriff won’t answer any questions and it looks like another dead end – until a chance meeting with returned local Lana gives Aidan his first clue. But as they piece together what happened, Lana and Aidan make deadly enemies. Enemies willing to do anything to silence them - and to protect the terrible truth about what is really going on in the forest...
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I was a massive fan of Edwards and it was his earlier works that made me fall in love with psychological thrillers nearly a decade ago. It saddens me to say this but this book was a massive disappointment. The first 20% of the book had such an amazing potential; it made my heart skip beats but it later went down hill SO FAST. It just became utterly messy in a lazy kind of way; there was a confusing mix of romance, family struggles, corruption, eco-terrorism, human trafficking + sexual exploitation, the apocalypse… like, everything random was just in there.
On top of that, the characters were god-awful, the twists did not make any sense, and nothing seemed to be linking back together. Sigh… the amount of internal battle I had about wanting to DNF this but pushed through instead just because I knew Edwards to be a great author was mental. This book was just not it - it was rubbish :(
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