Twenty years ago, seventeen-year-old Millie Collins vanished without a trace after the Maple Bay Summer Festival. The official story? She ran. The whispered truth? She was taken.
Now, true crime writer Sutton James returns to her hometown for the first time in two decades-dragged back by guilt, a cryptic tape, and the promise of answers she's spent years trying to forget. But when Millie's name resurfaces in a way no one expects, Sutton uncovers more than old secrets. She finds a legacy of silence, a ledger of missing girls, and the chilling realization that she was supposed to be the one who disappeared.
Someone has been watching.
Someone has been keeping count.
And someone is ready to start the cycle again.
Gripping, atmospheric, and haunting to the final page, The Summer She Went Missing is a psychological thriller about buried truths, the girls who were never supposed to be found-and the one who came back.