**EDGAR AWARD WINNER**"Sublime and tense"—Booklist"An original thriller filled with empathy." —Sarah Bailey, author of The HousemateThe Kelly family has always been troubleWhen a fire in a remote trailer park community kills nine people, including 17-year-old Sabine Kelly's mother and sister, Sabine confesses to the murders. Shortly after, she escapes custody, flees her bro...

DISCOVER AWARD-WINNING AUTHOR VIKKI WAKEFIELD'S GRIPPING PSYCHOLOGICAL THRILLERWhat happens to a family when a child goes missing?In a busy street market, Abbie lets go of six-year-old Sarah's hand.She isn't a bad mother, just exhausted.But when she turns around, her daughter is gone.READERS LOVE AFTER YOU WERE GONE⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 'Instantly g...

Seventeen-year-old Jacklin maneuvers her way through a summer of family drama and first—and second—loves in this gorgeous, lyrical novel from the author of Friday Never Leaving.Jacklin Bates (a.k.a. “Jack”) believes the only way to soar beyond her life is to drop out of school and move in with her free-spirited sister, Trudy. But Jack quickly discovers her sister isn’t the same person she used to be. And when Jack loses her job and the boy she loves breaks...

In this wrenching, mesmerizing coming-of-age novel that Kirkus Reviews calls “lyrical, suspenseful, and haunting,” Friday discovers what makes a family—and how to define home.Friday Brown has never had a home. She and her mother live on the road, always on the move, running away from the past instead of putting down roots. Even when her mom dies, the only thing Friday knows how to do is keep moving.Her journey takes her to an abandoned house where ...

"An original thriller filled with empathy." —Sarah Bailey, author of The HousemateThe Kelly family has always been troubleWhen a fire in a remote trailer park community kills nine people, including 17-year-old Sabine Kelly’s mother and sister, Sabine confesses to the murders. Shortly after, she escapes custody, flees her broken hometown, and disappears into the thick forest and winding backwaters of her childhood refuge, the river.