Fourteen-year-old Riley flees an abusive home situation with her seven-year-old brother, Oliver. With only cryptic directions to the children's shelter, Nowhere, high in the Colorado mountains, she and Oliver set out to find safety among the other runaways. Nowhere, once the home of a famous movie star, is now a burned-out ranch with only a barn for shelter. At first, Riley finds an answer to her problems, but as she digs deeper, she discovers the inhabitants aren't all they seem. She begins to question if she and Oliver are truly safe.
This novel is part psychological horror story and part suspenseful story about the ghostly remains of the Nowhere ranch and its former inhabitant. There are two timelines: the present with Riley and the past about the movie star. That wasn't clear at first, and was confusing until I figured it out. There are plot twists and unreliable narrators that kept me guessing.
4/5 stars.
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