Clary Hale believes she has finally escaped her horrific past and created a safe family life—until one day her children wake to find her gone, kidnapped by the psychopath who has been obsessed with her since her youth. “Genuinely frightening” PUBLISHERS WEEKLY “Riveting and menacing to the last page” NEWSWEEK “Chillingly memorable” SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE —- When fifteen-year-old Michael Hale wakes up and finds his mother is missing, he immediately knows something is wrong. His older sister says he’s overreacting. His baby brother is too young to know what’s going on. But as the day comes to an end and their mother still does not return, it’s clear that Michael is right. Beautiful, loving Clary Hale is gone… —- Rave reviews for GONE and Kit Craig… “Tantalizes and terrifies… a one-sitting book defying the reader to budge until the end” — LOS ANGELES TIMES “An outstanding psychological thriller”— PUBLISHERS WEEKLY “Frightening… the sense of unseen menace is nerve jangling to the last page” — GLAMOUR “Gone combines the obsession and madness of Fatal Attraction with the cruelty and horror of The Silence of the Lambs. Don’t miss it!” — Mostly Murder “For those who like to be scared, Gone is pretty close to perfect” — BOOKLIST “Kit Craig catches the thread of our primal nightmares” —Lois Gould “Plays off every child’s—and parent’s—worst nightmare… Chillingly memorable” — San Francisco Chronicle “A fast-paced thriller… the portrait of the seductive psychopath is so stunning that it’s hard to put the book down” — Library Journal “A tightly wound psycho-thriller written with terrifying understatement” — NEWSWEEK “Gets to the heart of a parent’s greatest you can’t always protect your children” — New York Newsday