The Orchard of Missing Girls
A Novel of Two Sisters, One Secret, and the Summer That Changed EverythingBy M. E. Halloway
Length3h 11m
About this audiobook
When a teenager vanishes from her family's century-old orchard, one woman must confront a secret her family has spent three generations trying to bury.
Early morning, present day: Del Amaro finds an overturned ladder in Row Fourteen — and an empty bed that was never slept in. Her cousin Sadie is gone. And she isn't the first child this land has lost.
Fourteen years earlier, Del's uncle Peter disappeared from these same rows without a trace, a wound the Whitfield family sealed shut with silence instead of answers. As search teams comb the property and old secrets begin to surface, Del is pulled into a story that stretches back over a century — to a seventeen-year-old picker named Marianne, inexplicably drawn to the orchard's oldest, most unsettling tree in the summer of 1987; to a foreman who has kept a family's darkest ledger for thirty years; and to a matriarch, Eleanor Whitfield, whose composure has always concealed exactly how much she chose not to ask.
Moving between two summers three decades apart, The Orchard of Missing Girls is a taut, atmospheric novel about the stories families tell to survive — and what it costs when an entire community decides some truths are easier left buried than spoken.
Audiobook details
GenreYoung Adult, Mystery and Thriller, General Fiction
Length3 hrs 11 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Chapter One: The Empty Row
2Chapter Two: What the Foreman Found
3Chapter Three: Before the Sirens
4Chapter Four: The Family That Owns the Land
5Chapter Five: A Sister, Missing
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6Chapter Six: Opening Day
7Chapter Seven: The Girls Who Worked the Rows
8Chapter Eight: Marianne
9Chapter Nine: The Owner's Daughter
10Chapter Ten: What Nobody Said Out Loud
11Chapter Eleven: The Storm Before the Frost
12Chapter Twelve: The Detective Who Remembers
13Chapter Thirteen: Interviews with the Dead Orchard's Living
14Chapter Fourteen: The Ledger
15Chapter Fifteen: What the Land Knows
16Chapter Sixteen: Two Girls, One Grave, Fourteen Years Apart
17Chapter Seventeen: The Locked Barn
18Chapter Eighteen: Confession Season
19Chapter Nineteen: What Was Buried Under the Old Trees
20Chapter Twenty: The Last Harvest
21Chapter Twenty-One: The Truth in the Ledger
22Chapter Twenty-Two: Every Row Accounted For
23Chapter Twenty-Three: The Orchard, After
24Epilogue: What Grows Back
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