\u201cThe Return of Ellie Black is a page-turning suspense novel, a shrewd character study, and a captivating mystery, all at the same time. The last fifty pages are magnetic. I couldn\u2019t put it down until I\u2019d experienced every last twist and turn.\u201d \u2014STEPHEN KING Detective Chelsey Calhoun\u2019s life is turned upside down when she gets the call Ellie Black, a girl who disappeared years earlier, has resurfaced in the woods of Washington state\u2014but Ellie\u2019s reappearance leaves Chelsey with more questions than answers. It\u2019s been twenty years since Detective Chelsey Calhoun\u2019s sister vanished when they were teenagers, and ever since she\u2019s been searching: for signs, for closure, for other missing girls. But happy endings are rare in Chelsey\u2019s line of work. Then a glimmer: local teenager Ellie Black, who disappeared without a trace two years earlier, has been found alive in the woods of Washington State. But something is not right with Ellie. She won\u2019t say where she\u2019s been, or who she\u2019s protecting, and it\u2019s up to Chelsey to find the answers. She needs to get to the bottom of what happened to Ellie: for herself, and for the memory of her sister, but mostly for the next girl who could be taken\u2014and who, unlike Ellie, might never return. The debut thriller from New York Times bestselling author Emiko Jean, The Return of Ellie Black is both a feminist tour de force about the embers of hope that burn in the aftermath of tragedy and a twisty page-turner that will shock and surprise you right up until the final page.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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