The Stories We Tell

Hannah Alder makes a living writing about things that frighten people.

She just never expected one of her stories to come looking for her.

At a book signing, a desperate mother approaches Hannah with an impossible claim: her ten-year-old daughter, Junie, knows who Hannah is.

They've never met.

But Junie has been calling her the story lady.

She's been writing messages backward. Telling strange stories about children who forget. And leaving clues that lead to places Hannah recognizes even though she's certain she's never been there.

Then Junie disappears.

As Hannah follows the trail the girl left behind, pieces of her own childhood begin surfacing with it. Places she thought she'd invented. Memories she doesn't trust. And evidence that someone has been watching Hannah far longer than she ever realized.

Someone who knows what was taken from her.

Someone who knows Junie remembers differently.

And someone who may finally have found a way to finish what was started years ago.

Hannah has spent her life turning the things she can't remember into fiction.

Now a missing little girl may be the only person who knows which parts were true.