African American Mystery Book Club

Everyone has something to hide—and someone has nothing to lose …

Nia Bryant has waited her entire life for this moment—the day when she and her line sisters are revealed as the newest members of Kappa Theta Theta sorority. It’s supposed to be the happiest day of her life … except Nia Bryant is missing …

With no clues left behind except for her abandoned car, Detective Chris Evans and his partner have very little to go on when they receive the assignment. The case makes national headlines, and the detectives know that they only have one chance to get this right. Nia Bryant isn’t your typical victim, and girls like her don’t just disappear—at least not by choice.

But as they start to peel back the layers of her life, they discover that the missing student has secrets of her own—secrets that give several people motive to want her gone.

Lies, betrayals, and long buried secrets are unearthed—revealing a twisted crime rooted in revenge that no one saw coming.

An estranged mother and father join forces to uncover the truth about their missing daughter in a haunting novel about trauma, loss, family, and hope.
When patrolman Brandon Hall comes upon a broken-down car on a Colorado highway, he finds a young girl in a bloodied nightgown at the wheel. In the back seat, the brutalized body of a teenage boy. The girl will say only one word: Hurt.
When the girl is admitted to the hospital, the doctor on call is Brandon’s ex-wife, Olivia Blake. For Olivia and Brandon, the traumatized Jane Doe opens a floodgate of memories. It’s been four years since they shared their own tragedy—the unsolved disappearance of their eight-year-old daughter, Carly, and the end of their marriage. As Olivia focuses on Jane Doe’s care, Brandon makes a startling discovery: a series of disappearances from across the country, over decades, that could finally lead to the truth about their missing daughter.
But will unraveling the past trigger a backslide into grief, guilt, and obsession? Or is finding out what horrors lie in the Colorado mountains the only thing that can heal them, and the mysterious young girl in their care?