Chapter 4

Two days later, an elderly woman came to the police station to file a report.

She said her neighbor, a young orphan with no parents, hadn't come home in two weeks, but the girl's food was still sitting in her house.

"She loves to eat more than anything. There's no way she wouldn't come back for it, so something must've happened to her."

The police had been tracking down victims from the Heritage District case, and this information was actually useful.

My neighbor, Amanda Wilson, was the only adult who'd been willing to help me when I was fourteen and…