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Leave No Trace

A Novel

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From the author of the "compelling" (Star Tribune, Minneapolis) and critically acclaimed Everything You Want Me to Be, a riveting and suspenseful thriller about the mysterious disappearance of a boy and his stunning return ten years later.

"A tense and gripping read that plumbs the depths of grief and longing...As thrilling as a whitewater rapid and as dark as the Minnesotan wilderness itself." —Amy Gentry, internationally bestselling author of Good as Gone

"Dark and atmospheric, with palpably vivid details and complex characters harboring plenty of secrets...the perfect combination of gorgeous prose and edge-of-your-seat storytelling." —Kimberly Belle, internationally bestselling author of The Marriage Lie

"This novel deserves the top-spot on your reading list!"—Hannah Mary McKinnon, author of The Neighbors
There is a place in Minnesota with hundreds of miles of glacial lakes and untouched forests called the Boundary Waters. Ten years ago a man and his son trekked into this wilderness and never returned.

Search teams found their campsite ravaged by what looked like a bear. They were presumed dead until a decade later...the son appeared. Discovered while ransacking an outfitter store, he was violent and uncommunicative and sent to a psychiatric facility. Maya Stark, the assistant language therapist, is charged with making a connection with their high-profile patient. No matter how she tries, however, he refuses to answer questions about his father or the last ten years of his life.

But Maya, who was abandoned by her own mother, has secrets, too. And as she's drawn closer to this enigmatic boy who is no longer a boy, she'll risk everything to reunite him with his father who has disappeared from the known world.
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    • Publisher's Weekly

      July 9, 2018
      Freshly certified speech therapist Maya Stark, the narrator of this atmospheric though flawed psychological thriller from Mejia (Everything You Want Me to Be), knows she’s in over her head when Dr. Mehta—who only a few years ago was her own psychiatrist at the Duluth, Minn., mental hospital where she now works—pressures her into trying to break through to 19-year-old Lucas Blackthorn, a violent, silent new patient. Until his recent arrest during an attempted robbery, Lucas was presumed dead after vanishing a decade earlier with his father into the vast Boundary Waters wilderness on the Canadian border. The ruggedly handsome Lucas—and his single-minded determination to escape back into the wild to save his ailing parent—will soon affect Maya so deeply that she embarks on a series of increasingly dangerous decisions that could cost her job. Although overly plotted, especially with what feel like forced symmetries between Maya’s and Lucas’s backstories, the novel is saved by its arresting characters—none more so than the mysterious, primeval expanse of the Boundary Waters itself. Mejia remains a writer to watch. Agent: Stephanie Cabot, Gernert Company

    • AudioFile Magazine
      Narrator Patricia Rodriguez uses her excellent vocal talents for empathy and emotion as she describes Lloyd, an emotionally wounded young man who finds himself in a psychiatric ward after being arrested for breaking into an outfitters store. Until then, Lloyd had been missing for over 10 years. He'd disappeared in the Minnesota woods and been presumed dead when searchers found the remains of a campsite that showed signs of a bear attack. Rodriguez takes a loving tone as language therapist Maya Stark helps the young man cope with his trauma and uncovers what happened in the lost decade. Rodriguez adds a sense of urgency to dramatic scenes and turns up the compassion as the story unfolds and Maya tries to find Lloyd's father. R.O. © AudioFile 2018, Portland, Maine

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