When Lane fled her rural hometown after school for New York City, she swore she'd never return. But twenty years later, newly divorced and with two daughters in tow, she finds herself back. Ostracised by the people she was taught to trust, Lane's unsteady truce with the town is rattled when her older daughter suddenly vanishes, igniting fears that a serial killer who once preyed upon the town has returned. Powerful and heart-pounding, The Disappearing questions the endurance of family bonds, the dangers of rumours and small-town gossip, and how sometimes home is the scariest place of all.