NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - OVER ONE MILLION COPIES SOLD - From the author of We Begin at the End comes a soaring thriller and an epic love story that 'hits like a sledgehammer . . . an absolutely must-read novel' (Gillian Flynn, author of Gone Girl). Read with Jenna Book Club Pick as Featured on Today The Boston Globe's #1 Thriller/Mystery of 2024 So Far A Best Book of the Year: Washington Post, She Reads, Kirkus Reviews 'Kept me frantically turning the pages and somehow made me cry at the end . . . Brava '--Kristin Hannah, author of The Women 'Melds tense suspense with a powerful exploration of devotion, obsession, and love.'--People (Best New Books) 1975 is a time of change in America. The Vietnam War is ending. Muhammad Ali is fighting Joe Frazier. And in the smalltown of Monta Clare, Missouri, girls are disappearing. When the daughter of a wealthy family is targeted, the most unlikely hero emerges--Patch, a local boy, who saves the girl, and, in doing so, leaves heartache in his
