The Girls Before

About the Book

There is a girl in a basement.

The door has stopped opening.
The light is gone.

Stranger is trapped in the dark, with only her imagination and the scribbles on the wall left by long-dead girls to keep her company. Nearly out of food and water, she makes one last attempt to escape. But if the door opens at last, will it mean salvation, or only the beginning of her fight to survive?

Audrey is a search and rescue expert who never stopped looking for her ex-best friend, Janie, who disappeared when they were teenagers. Janie used to love the local legend of a forest witch who saves girls from bad men, but Audrey knows now that for every one saved, there’s always another one lost. When she stumbles upon evidence in the forest that a teenage runaway might have actually been kidnapped from land belonging to the town’s most prominent family, she will have to dig through decades of secrets to reveal the biggest one of all: what happened to the girls before.

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Kate Alice Marshall

Kate Alice Marshall is a master of creating worlds that blur the line between the real and the unsettling, where ordinary lives intertwine with the eerie and the inexplicable. A writer who specializes in thrillers and horror, Marshall’s stories invite readers into psychological landscapes as haunting as they are…

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