Original price 14.95. As new. 312 pp. Melanie faces gaunt. The skin was pale wood on healthy, grainy texture. Her lips, more grey than pink, were cracked and peeling. The flesh around her sunken eyes was dark , as if it had been smudged when she had wiped away tears with an inky thumb. Six years ago as a 3-year-old she was kidnapped and seemingly vanished from the face of the earth. Now she is found at nine years old wandering the streets of Los Angeles. Also the man who kidnapped but the nightmare does not then