He knows the store has much to show him, so he keeps searching. With the graffitied baler that shudders and groans and beckons. Now twenty and desperate for work, Ben takes a job on the night stock crew at the only place that will have him: the store that blinked Eric out of existence.īen can feel there's something wrong there. Still searching, while his stepmother sits and waits and whispers for Eric, refusing to leave the house that Ben's father can no longer afford.
Vanished into the sticky air of the Florida Panhandle.įive years later, Ben is still looking for his brother. Ben looked away for only a second at the grocery store, but that was all it took.
From Dathan Auerbach, the author of the horror sensation Penpal, a hauntingly dark novel about a young boy who goes missing, and the brother who won't stop looking for him.Įric disappeared when he was three years old.
