{"product_id":"the-girls-before","title":"The Girls Before","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA search \u0026amp; rescue expert. A kidnapped woman. The lost girls who haunt them both. \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"A superb mystery. . . Readers will be thinking about this long after they turn the last page.\" --\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e (starred review)\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThere is a girl in a basement.\u003cbr\u003eThe door has stopped opening.\u003cbr\u003eThe light is gone. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eStranger 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? \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAudrey 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eKate Alice Marshall, bestselling author of \u003ci\u003eWhat Lies in the Woods\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eNo One Can Know\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eA Killing Cold\u003c\/i\u003e, is back with the thrilling new novel Ashley Winstead calls, \u003cb\u003e \"\u003c\/b\u003emagnetic, shocking, heartbreaking, and unputdownable.\"","brand":"Kate Alice Marshall","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53207055139029,"sku":"BS-I6J-343086","price":28.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0777\/7170\/2485\/files\/9781250343086-HD.jpg?v=1771183602","url":"https:\/\/www.acornbookshop.com\/products\/the-girls-before","provider":"Acorn Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}