<p><strong>Welcome to Bronswood. The most prestigious private elementary school in&nbsp;Windwood.</strong></p><p><br></p><p>Heather Hartford's life&nbsp;is&nbsp;finally looking up. She's&nbsp;traded an abusive relationship for an affluent second husband&nbsp;with&nbsp;connections&nbsp;and&nbsp;status in the community. His social&nbsp;standing opens&nbsp;Bronswood's&nbsp;great wooden doors&nbsp;for Heather's two kids.&nbsp;The Bronswood PTA royalty&nbsp;have&nbsp;taken Heather under their wings. Her children Charlie&nbsp;and&nbsp;Theodora&nbsp;will&nbsp;have every opportunity in life that she herself never had.</p><p><br></p><p>But&nbsp;Heather's&nbsp;dream quickly&nbsp;becomes&nbsp;a living nightmare.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><p>When&nbsp;she&nbsp;goes to pick up&nbsp;Charlie&nbsp;from school&nbsp;Heather's&nbsp;world&nbsp;is upended&nbsp;when his teacher informs her that&nbsp;she&nbsp;picked&nbsp;him up earlier that afternoon. Security camera footage confirms it.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><p>But Heather knows she hasn't picked him up and she throws herself into an obsessive&nbsp;<strong>and</strong>&nbsp;<strong>dangerous </strong>search&nbsp;to find her son. As she sinks deeper into the mystery she realizes:&nbsp;Charlie&nbsp;isn't the only child who's disappeared.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><p>Heather isn't sure who to trust. Police think her son ran away. Charlie's father is suddenly reappearing in Heather's life. And something sinister is happening inside the walls of Bronswood.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><p>Heather will stop at nothing to save her son. But first she&nbsp;has to&nbsp;find the answer.</p><p><br></p><p><em>Where is Charlie Hartford?&nbsp;</em></p><p><br></p><p>For fans of Alice Feeney's&nbsp;<em>Daisy Darker</em> and Stacy Willingham's A Flicker In The Dark.</p>