Twelve-year-old Ivy Marlowe disappears without a trace while walking home from school in a small, tight-knit town. A massive search turns up nothing. The case goes cold, and her family begins to crumble under the weight of grief and unanswered questions.
Five years later, Ivy is found wandering in a remote forest on the outskirts of town - dirty, confused, and with no memory of where she's been or what happened to her. Her reappearance shocks the community, and while her family is relieved, they're also unnerved by how much she's changed.
Now seventeen, Ivy tries to reintegrate into her old life, but nothing feels familiar. She's plagued by nightmares, sudden panic attacks, and vivid flashes of places she doesn't remember visiting. She can't trust her mind, but something deep inside her whispers that she isn't safe.
As Ivy tries to reclaim her life, fragments of memory start to return a locked basement, a cabin in the woods, an iron bracelet around her ankle, a voice whispering rules she had to obey. And worst of all, the man's face always blurred, always watching.
MAJIOR PLOT TWIST AT THE END!!!
Ivy's survival skills are about to be pushed to the limits as her abuser finds her moving on with her life. Ivy is a twenty-one-year-old single mother who has lived foster care to foster care her whole life. Until she gave birth to her firstborn son. She has made good friends along the way but when she decides it's time to move forward. Ivy puts herself in tough positions trying to keep the people she cares about safe. Could Sunview be turned into the home she's been striving for? It is an affordable small town very secluded. Quiet country or so she thought until she gets mixed up in the town drama her parents shielded her from.