Prologue

Johanna Silver is a mystery novelist. You may be thinking "What's so special about her? What's the difference between her and others who write the genre?" She bases her books off of real cold cases...Cases she helped solve.
Mary McAllister was only three years old when she went missing. No one knows what happened. She was there one minute and gone the next. 16 years later the story was never told and the girl never found. Johanna will figure out what happened to her, even if it means death.