Good Girls Stay

Meadow Carter was twenty-two when she disappeared.

One night.
Too many drinks.
A stranger who offered to help.
And then she was gone.

Now, fifteen years later, Meadow lives in a cramped apartment attached to her husband's parents' house with seven children who have never touched a phone, watched television, or stepped foot inside a school. Their lives are governed by rules-strict routines, obedience, silence. Linus says the outside world is poison. Technology destroys families. Women who leave their homes become monsters.

For years, Meadow believed escape was impossible.
Until her eldest daughter begins asking questions.
Questions Meadow no longer knows how to answer.
Because the most terrifying part isn't that Meadow was taken.

It's that somewhere along the way, she stopped believing she deserved to be found.