the Girl in Shadows

They took everyone in her family. They made one mistake. They overlooked her.Thirteen-year-old Samantha "Sam" Bennett is used to living in her older sister's shadow.Sarah is sixteen-beautiful, athletic, popular, and seemingly good at everything. Sam is the other Bennett sister: smart, capable, and a pretty good athlete herself, but somehow always standing just outside the spotlight. She loves Sarah more than anyone in the world, even if being her little sister isn't always easy.But during a family camping trip deep in the mountains, everything changes.Sam leaves the campsite for only a few minutes. When she returns, the fire is still burning, their belongings are scattered... and her entire family has vanished.There are signs of a struggle.There are tracks leading into the woods.And there is a message from her father telling her to do one thing: Do not follow them.Sam follows them anyway.Alone in unfamiliar wilderness, Sam must rely on the very qualities no one ever seemed to notice-her intelligence, determination, athletic ability, and courage. And as the people who took her family soon discover, the quiet girl they left behind may be far more dangerous to their plans than anyone imagined.What begins as a desperate search becomes a battle of wits, as Sam turns the wilderness itself against her family's captors and discovers something about herself she never knew.She doesn't have to be Sarah.She doesn't have to be number one.She just has to be Sam.The Girl in the Shadows is a fast-moving suspense thriller about courage, sisterhood, family, and an underestimated young girl who discovers that sometimes the person no one sees coming is exactly the person you should never underestimate.