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    "description": "Silent tears trickle down her cheeks as she curls inside the tiny cave-like space. She lies on her side, darkness all around her, rubbing her fingers over the little wooden doll he\u2019d carved. He told her to be quiet, not to cry or scream. Not to be a baby. Her throat was raw, her eyes swollen shut. She wanted her mommy and daddy. She wanted to go home.\n\nWhen Penny Matthews, a seven-year-old girl with blonde curls and a gap-toothed smile, goes missing in the Appalachian mountains, Detective Ellie Reeves is called straight to the scene. According to Penny\u2019s parents, their daughter vanished after a picnic by the creek. All that\u2019s left behind is a pink friendship bracelet etched with \u201cPenny\u201d.\n\nEllie knows all too well that the mountains\u2019 endless miles of dark forest and winding rivers are the perfect place for a criminal to hide. Racing against the rapidly setting sun and a brutal winter storm on the horizon, she searches desperately for Penny.\n\nSpecial Agent Derrick Fox is determined to join the hunt. His younger sister, Kim, disappeared in the same area twenty-five years ago\u2013\u2013on the day he was meant to be watching her. He\u2019s certain the cases are linked and that over a dozen girls have vanished in the last decade. Ellie refuses to believe that their tight-knit mountain community could be home to a deadly criminal, but even she can\u2019t deny the similarities in the cases. And when they discover the remains of a small body buried with a carved wooden doll, it\u2019s clear they\u2019re up against a deadly serial killer preying on innocent little girls.\n\nAs the temperature plunges, Penny\u2019s life hangs in the balance. Most people who get lost in the woods never make it out alive. Can Ellie and Derrick defy the odds and find out the truth about all the stolen girls? Or will the mountain, and its twisted killer, claim another victim?",
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