Lost Hours

After she was kidnapped in Missouri and held captive for three days, thriller writer Beth Rivers hid in Benedict, AK, for a year. Her kidnapper has now been arrested, so Beth feels safe to emerge from hiding and take in the sights. She’s finally taking a tour boat to see the glaciers when the boat is forced to veer off course to rescue a woman waving from a nearby island. Covered in blood, the woman identifies herself as Sadie and claims she was taken from her home in Juneau and that her kidnapper was killed by a bear. While Beth sympathizes, Sadie’s claim to be in witness protection doesn’t ring true to her or to Police Chief Gril Samuels because of her attitude toward the Juneau police. Beth and Gril are investigating Sadie’s story when a teenage girl disappears. With the story of an escaped prisoner circulating around Benedict, Beth and Gril suspect all the cases could be intertwined.