Things like kidnappings just don't happen in Meander. I mean they never had up until little LeedieAnn Alcott disappeared last summer just before my ninth birthday. The kidnapping hit me, Kiley Mulligan Culver, a lot harder that it did the town kids because Dad and I live out on what is left of the old Alcott plantation. Losing Leedie Ann was like losing someone in my own family....

Kiley has just seen Leedie Ann in the window of the Alcott mansion. Then - why will no one admit she's back?