V.C. Andrews, queen of Gothic fiction for twenty-five years, explores a new genre in her womens fiction debutavailable exclusively as an eBook. A young mother struggles to keep her marriage together in the wake of her daughters kidnappingand to keep hope of her return alive. Grace is the doting mother of Mary, an angelic five-year-old who charms everyone around her. But in one tragic moment at a local shopping mall, Grace looks down to discover that Mary is no longer at her sideand can't be found anywhere. She and her husband wait by the phone for a ransom demand that never comes. For months Grace believes that Mary is somewhere, alive and safe, waiting to come home to herbut as her family and friends give up hope, Grace's marriage begins to crumble. Only one detective, Sam Abraham, shares her determination to find Marybut could his motives be less than altruistic? As Sam and Mary work together to track Mary's disappearance, they discover clues that this was more than a random kidnappingand that Mary may have been special to more than just her mother