About This Book
When ten-year-old Gracie Brice disappears from a soccer field in broad daylight, her billionaire father's wealth and connections prove useless against an enemy he can't see. The only person who might be able to find her is the one her family has spent years trying to forget — a Vietnam veteran father living off the grid in New Mexico, drowning in old wounds. Gimenez builds his thriller around a kidnapping that keeps getting more complicated: the deeper investigators dig, the more family secrets surface, and the more uncertain Gracie's fate becomes.
What distinguishes the novel is how Gimenez uses the rescue plot to excavate a fractured family rather than just a missing child. The pacing is relentless, but the real tension comes from the relationships — an estranged grandfather forced back into the world, a father who was present without ever really showing up, a mother holding everything together while falling apart. Gimenez writes with the clean economy of a thriller writer who understands that character pressure amplifies plot stakes. It reads fast, but it lingers.