Gone Again: A Thriller

by Minka Kent

Overview

In this novel of escalating fear and suspense by Washington Post and Wall Street Journal bestselling author Minka Kent, a secret from a woman’s past unearths a lifetime of lies. How long can she run from the past?

On her fortieth birthday, Celia Guest has reason to celebrate. She has a loving marriage, a beautiful Connecticut home, and treasured friends. Celia has everything she’s ever wanted. But among the cards and well-wishes, she discovers a disturbing note: You don’t deserve any of this.

Who could be so cruel, so resentful, so…knowing? Then, in the early morning hours, Celia vanishes without a trace.

As suspicions and concerns rise among Celia’s friends, her sister Genevieve, with whom she shares a fractured and troubling bond, starts to piece together a shattered life that Celia fled from once before. As a foundation of lies begins to crumble, a terrifying childhood secret Celia thought was dead and buried comes to light.

And this time, there’s no getting away from the truth.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781662505393
Publisher:	Amazon Publishing
Publication date:	03/07/2023
Pages:	240
Product dimensions:	5.40(w) x 8.20(h) x 0.70(d)

About the Author

Minka Kent is the Washington Post and Wall Street Journal bestselling author of The Watcher Girl, When I Was You, The Stillwater Girls, The Thinnest Air, The Perfect Roommate, The Memory Watcher, and Unmissing. She is a graduate of Iowa State University and resides in Iowa with her husband and three children. For more information, visit www.minkakent.com.

Editorial Reviews

From a master of dysfunctional family values.…So many opportunities for misdeeds that even fans will find it hard to predict the next one, or the one after that.” —Kirkus Reviews

“[A] solid psychological thriller.” —Publishers Weekly

From the Publisher

2022-12-24
A woman’s disappearance unleashes a series of shocks, some of them buried for many years, from a master of dysfunctional family values.

This isn’t the first time Celia Guest has gone missing. As one of three daughters of Jim Fielding, a draconian police officer in Cross Beach, Florida, she tried running away from home when she was 15. Her escape lasted only a few hours before her father caught her and shipped her off to the Heavenly Soldiers Reformatory, a nightmare site where young sinners were washed clean by the Church of True Believers. The second time—her taking off from Cross Beach College and going into hiding—was much more successful except for its effect on her sisters, Genevieve and Celeste, who felt that she’d abandoned them. But the third time is the poisoned charm. The day after a 40th birthday party during which her buddies in Schofield, Connecticut, shower her with unwanted gifts to celebrate their friendship and an anonymous correspondent tells her, “YOU DON’T DESERVE ANY OF THIS,” she leaves a note for her significantly older husband, hospital administrator Rob Guest, assuring him that she’s gone out on an errand and will return shortly, and takes off without a backward glance. To the surprise and resentment of her husband, pastor’s son Brad Jacobs, Genevieve launches a frantic search for her missing sister. As Kent skips gleefully between the present and selected highlights from the sisters’ pasts, Genevieve uncovers enough evidence to earn their relations a permanent spot in a chamber of horrors.

So many opportunities for misdeeds that even fans will find it hard to predict the next one, or the one after that.

Kirkus Reviews