02431cam a2200301 4500 599081686 TxAuBib 20201222120000.0 200812s2021||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2020036215 9780399590313 hardcover 0399590315 hardcover (OCoLC)1184122253 DLC eng rda DLC BDX YDX MJ8 OCLCO OCLCF OCO OQX YU6 GK8 IH9 YDX DEERP OCL KTP TxAuBib McHugh, Laura, author. What's done in darkness : a novel / Laura McHugh. What is done in darkness. First edition. New York : Random House, [2021] 238 pages ; 22 cm. "On a hot, hazy summer day, Sarabeth is forced to work her family's farmstand in Arkansas. It was only recently that Sarabeth had a normal teenage life in town, able to see her friends, starting to date--but that was before her parents found God and moved her and her siblings to a farm in the middle of nowhere. Now she has to wear long dresses even in the blistering heat, can't cut her hair, and can't spend time with anyone her age. Sarabeth has become rebellious and wayward, refusing to adapt--then she is taken. Blindfolded and chained to a basement wall, Sarabeth is held captive for weeks by a person she never sees or speaks to, and just when she thinks her life is about to be over, she wakes up along the side of a highway, where she is discovered by a passing motorist. Now an adult, she goes by Sarah, has cut ties with her family entirely, and has made a contented, if solitary life for herself as an adult in St. Louis. That is, until Detective Nick Farrow with the Missouri Highway Patrol Missing Persons calls her, wanting her help to investigate the recent disappearance of a young girl in a case which bears striking similarities to Sarah's own. In this riveting new novel from Laura McHugh, a woman finds that sometimes our attempt to loosen the ties to our past only bind us further. McHugh enthralls with this suspenseful tale of a woman who pulls a real-life Gone Girl"-- Provided by publisher. 20201222. Kidnapping Fiction. Missing persons Fiction. Cults Fiction. Psychological fiction. Suspense fiction.