The Ascent

What would you do if the past showed up on your doorstep? A woman who grew up in a cult must decide;if she can trust the stranger claiming to have answers to the dark mysteries of her childhood in this "irresistible"* thriller. *Ana Reyes, Twenty years ago,;the;members of a reclusive commune outside Philadelphia vanished without a trace. The mystery of their disappearance has never been solved. No sightings of the members were ever verified, and no bodies ever found. But the group did leave one thing behind: a twelve-year-old girl wandering alone on;the;side of;the;road in search of her lost family. In the years since that morning, Lee Burton has tried to put the pain of her past behind her. She has built a new identity for herself, with a doting husband and seven-month-old daughter, Lucy. No one in her life now knows about her connection to “the cult that went missing,” not even her husband. But new motherhood is proving a bigger challenge than she anticipated. She doesn''t want to let Lucy out of her sight even for a moment. She can''t return to work. She''s not sleeping, and she''s starting to have paranoid thoughts of Lucy being harmed.;; Then a stranger shows up on her doorstep, offering to finally answer all of Lee’s questions about her past--if she could only trust that the woman is who she says she is. As she digs deeper into the woman''s history, the safe, stable life that Lee has constructed for herself threatens to shatter. In <The Ascent<, Allison Buccola has crafted a nerve-rattling thriller about motherhood, identity, and;the truths we think we know about our families.

Auteur
Allison Buccola is the author of Catch Her When She Falls. She has a JD from the University of Chicago and lives in the Chicago suburbs with her husband and their two young children.

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*What would you do if the past showed up on your doorstep?*

A woman who grew up in a cult must decide if she can trust the stranger claiming to have answers to the dark mysteries of her childhood in this irresistible thriller.

“I tore through this book and was genuinely shocked by its ending!”—Ana Reyes, New York Times bestselling author of The House in the Pines

For decades, the whereabouts of The Fifteen has been an unsolved mystery. All the members of this reclusive commune outside Philadelphia vanished twenty years ago, except for one: a twelve-year-old girl found wandering alone on the side of the road.

In the years since that morning, Lee Burton has tried to put the pain of her past behind her, building a new identity for herself with a doting husband and seven-month-old daughter, Lucy. But motherhood is proving a bigger challenge than she anticipated. She doesn’t want to let Lucy out of her sight even for a moment. She can’t return to work. She’s not sleeping, and she has started spiraling into paranoia.

Then a stranger shows up on her doorstep, offering answers to all of Lee’s questions about her past—if Lee could only trust that this woman is who she says she is. Can Lee keep her safe, stable life? Or will new revelations about “the cult that went missing” shatter everything? In The Ascent, Allison Buccola has crafted a nerve-rattling thriller about motherhood, identity, and the truths we think we know about our families.