𝑨𝒍𝒐𝒏𝒆 𝒈𝒊𝒓𝒍

Summary

When twelve-year-old Tessa hatches a scheme for a secret sleepover with her two best friends, she ends up waking up to a nightmare. She’s alone—left behind in a town that has been mysteriously evacuated and abandoned. With no one to rely on, no power, and no working phone lines or internet access, Tessa slowly learns to survive on her own. Her only companions are a Rottweiler named George and all the books she can read. After a rough start, Tessa learns to trust her own ingenuity and invents clever ways to survive in a place that has been deserted and forgotten. As months pass, she escapes natural disasters, looters, and wild animals. But Tessa’s most formidable enemy is the crushing loneliness she faces every day. Can Tessa’s stubborn will to survive carry her through the most frightening experience of her life?

Genre
Mystery
Author
Bebini
Status
Ongoing
Chapters
1
Rating
n/a
Age Rating
16+

Chapter 1

THEN

She was fifteen, her mother's golden girl. She had her whole life ahead of her. And then, in the blink of an eye, Tessa was gone.


NOW

It’s been ten years since Tessa disappeared, but Laurel has never given up hope of finding her daughter.


And then one day a charming and charismatic stranger called Floyd walks into a café and sweeps Laurel off her feet.


Before too long she’s staying the night at this house and being introduced to his nine year old daughter.


Poppy is precocious and pretty - and meeting her completely takes Laurel's breath away.


Because Poppy is the spitting image of Tessa when she was that age. And now all those unanswered questions that have haunted Laurel come flooding back.


What happened to Tessa? Where did she go?


Who still has secrets to hide?