āThe 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 couldnāt put it down until Iād experienced every last twist and turn.ā āSTEPHEN KING
Detective Chelsey Calhounās 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 stateābut Ellieās reappearance leaves Chelsey with more questions than answers.
Itās been twenty years since Detective Chelsey Calhounās sister vanished when they were teenagers, and ever since sheās been searching: for signs, for closure, for other missing girls. But happy endings are rare in Chelseyās 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 wonāt say where sheās been, or who sheās protecting, and itās 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 takenāand 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.