When her aunt Cora goes missing, Quinn Cutheridge returns to the town of Wonderland, Wyoming, for the first time in a decade. Although Quinn\u2019s line of work gives her a professional lens that might help get to the bottom of Cora\u2019s disappearance, she\u2019s ambivalent about taking on the case. She hasn\u2019t seen or spoken to her aunt since Cora unceremoniously told her then-teenage niece nearly 10 years ago that she wasn\u2019t welcome in Cora\u2019s home anymore. Because Quinn\u2019s mother was sort of a nonentity, Cora\u2019s house had been Quinn\u2019s respite, and she still has no idea why she was sent away. But Hunter Lemming, Cora\u2019s 21-year-old female ranch hand, is adamant that Quinn return, so she reluctantly does. Even though she\u2019s trying to do Hunter a favor in searching for Cora, Hunter remains distant, calling her \u201cPrincess\u201d and sharing the minimum amount of information she might need to solve the mystery. It\u2019s not clear if Hunter\u2019s unfriendliness stems from knowing more than she\u2019ll say or if it\u2019s a reaction to the undeniable spark between her and Quinn. Quinn is particularly suspicious of Hunter\u2019s chumminess with local Sheriff Maddie Bridgers, who comes from the town\u2019s high-powered Coldwater family. Suspense builds along with the rising tension between the women. Interspersed chapters tell the 40-year-old story of Jessica Coldwater, who was murdered as a teen. The townsfolk assume that her best friend, Holly Prine, killed her, though Holly\u2019s disappearance means that no one has ever been sure. If Quinn can only figure out how her present-day case is linked to this presumably solved crime, she can find out what happened to Cora.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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