When Detective Sam Halloway looks at the missing girl's photo, he sees his own daughter's face. He has forty-eight hours to be wrong about that.Sixteen-year-old Emily Sorensen vanishes three blocks from home — the same bus stop Halloway's own daughter uses every day. Two years sober and still fighting to prove he's not the liability his department thinks he is, Halloway throws himself into the case, certain the answer is close. Too close.Every suspect looks guilty. The step...

Detective Sam Halloway caught a kidnapper once. Now he has to find the man who taught him how.When a teenage girl vanishes from a rural Wyoming bus stop, the case reopens a nightmare Halloway thought was over — because the "quiet, helpful older man" witnesses describe matches a pattern investigators traced back through six unsolved missing-persons cases spanning four states and three decades.To find him, Halloway has to go back to the one man who might know his name: Dougla...

THE WAYFARER'S ROAD: THE NARROW GATE by Nathan VossYou know the feeling.It's 2 a.m. and you're scrolling through your phone and somewhere underneath the exhaustion and the notifications and the performance of being fine, something is saying: this isn't it. This isn't the life. This is what the life looks like from the outside, and you've been living on the outside of your own life for so long you've forgotten there's an inside.You'...

This edited volume offers an accessible avenue for improving health and well-being by demonstrating the power of narrative in advocating for yourself, your family, and your community. Leading scholars of health communication draw on a variety of perspectives, theories, and methodologies and incorporate their own personal experiences of narratives to demonstrate the compelling reasons why narratives should be studied and applied in a wide range of health contexts. Each cha...