The special ed teacher feels that one of her students, Pip, is a child that was abducted as a toddler. So crazily, this woman abducts Pip herself and takes him back to the island he was abducted from and enters a more horrifying life. I couldn't get into this woman meddling so much in another's life. I did like the things she talked about doing as a teacher to help special needs children, especially those with dyslexia. ( )

good surprise mystery

Everyone on Rand's Island swore Eva Haskel was crazy. Ever since the well-publicized, unsolved kidnapping of her baby, she was a tragic figure on the tiny island off the Connecticut coast, wildly mourning the child who mysteriously vanished six long years ago. Then a shocking twist of fate and a very determined young woman enter Eva's dark world to bring her son home at last....