03519cam a2200517 i 4500 2709059143 TxAuBib 20260317120000.0 250912s2026||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2025027606 2025027606 9781250343086 hardcover 1250343089 hardcover (OCoLC)1536516419 TxAuBib rda eng eng Marshall, Kate Alice, author. The girls before : a novel / Kate Alice Marshall. Girls before, The : a novel. First edition. New York : Pine & Ceder, 2026. ©2026. New York : Pine & Ceder, 2026. ©2026. 308 pages ; 24 cm. 308 pages ; 24 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier "There is a girl in a basement. The door has stopped opening. The light is gone. Stranger is trapped in the dark, with only her imagination and the scribbles on the wall left by long-dead girls to keep her company. Nearly out of food and water, she makes one last attempt to escape. But if the door opens at last, will it mean salvation, or only the beginning of her fight to survive? Audrey is a search and rescue expert who never stopped looking for her ex-best friend, Janie, who disappeared when they were teenagers. Janie used to love the local legend of a forest witch who saves girls from bad men, but Audrey knows now that for every one saved, there's always another one lost. When she stumbles upon evidence in the forest that a teenage runaway might have actually been kidnapped from land belonging to the town's most prominent family, she will have to dig through decades of secrets to reveal the biggest one of all: what happened to the girls before"-- Provided by publisher. "There is a girl in a basement. The door has stopped opening. The light is gone. Stranger is trapped in the dark, with only her imagination and the scribbles on the wall left by long-dead girls to keep her company. Nearly out of food and water, she makes one last attempt to escape. But if the door opens at last, will it mean salvation, or only the beginning of her fight to survive? Audrey is a search and rescue expert who never stopped looking for her ex-best friend, Janie, who disappeared when they were teenagers. Janie used to love the local legend of a forest witch who saves girls from bad men, but Audrey knows now that for every one saved, there's always another one lost. When she stumbles upon evidence in the forest that a teenage runaway might have actually been kidnapped from land belonging to the town's most prominent family, she will have to dig through decades of secrets to reveal the biggest one of all: what happened to the girls before"-- Provided by publisher. 20260317. Search and rescue operations Fiction. Kidnapping victims Fiction. Secrecy Fiction. Female friendship Fiction. Thrillers (Fiction.) fast Detective and mystery fiction. fast Survival fiction. fast Novels. fast Fiction. fast Marshall, Kate Alice, author.