01953cam a2200313 i 4500 540733391 TxAuBib 20211208120000.0 210331s2021||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2021012842 9781982164805 1982164808 TxAuBib rda Ernshaw, Shea. A History of Wild Places : A Novel / Shea Ernshaw. First Atria Books hardcover edition. New York : Atria Books, 2021. 354 pages ; 24 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier Travis Wren has an unusual talent for locating missing people. Hired by families as a last resort, he requires only a single object to find the person who has vanished. When he takes on the case of Maggie St. James-a well-known author of dark, macabre children's books-he's led to a place many believed to be only a legend. Called Pastoral, this reclusive community was founded in the 1970s by like-minded people searching for a simpler way of life. By all accounts, the commune shouldn't exist anymore and soon after Travis stumbles upon it...he disappears. Just like Maggie St. James. Years later, Theo, a lifelong member of Pastoral, discovers Travis's abandoned truck beyond the border of the community. No one is allowed in or out, not when there's a risk of bringing a disease-rot-into Pastoral. Unraveling the mystery of what happened reveals secrets that Theo, his wife, Calla, and her sister, Bee, keep from one another. Secrets that prove their perfect, isolated world isn't as safe as they believed-and that darkness takes many forms. 20211208. Communal living Fiction. Missing Persons Fiction. Psychological Fiction. Suspense Fiction. Thrillers (Fiction.)