Patch Macaulay saves a girl only to be abducted and imprisoned himself. When he eventually escapes he is determined to find Grace, the girl who shared the darkness with him and made his captivity bearable. This is an epic love story and a murder mystery spanning several decades. A big book but a real page-turner.
In the state of Missouri two high school girls and a college kid had gone missing in the past eight months. Cops had shown up at Monta Clare High School and told the students the importance of vigilance, said it while they hooked their thumbs into their waistbands, fingers meeting the steel of their Model 39s. For a while the town hung in a kind of rampant fear that meant Saint was no longer allowed out of her yard when the sun dropped.
