Thorn Girl

"On a cool April evening, fifteen-year-old Marianne lays out a rug on the stone floor of an abandoned cottage and waits for her boyfriend Shane. Her mother does not know she is missing. Shane will never arrive, and by the end of the night, Marianne's life will be shattered into a million pieces. Years later, in a dimly lit attic, Adele stumbles across the secret diary of the mother she has never met, and a shocking account of a crime committed twenty-five years ago. When Adele returns to the last place her mother was seen alive, the news of her arrival and the diary spread like wildfire amongst the small close-knit community. Old memories are stirring up fresh wounds. No one wants the truth of what happened that Spring evening ever to be told. And the deeper Adele digs, the more lies she uncovers. Can she find those responsible before they silence her?"-Book cover.