welcome to the fictitious little town of watery pennsylvania where the district attorneys personal secretary mary murray never planned to become a single mom or a suspect in her infants disappearance but she plans to find jena before she suffers the same fate marys younger brother had when he was taken twelve years earlier andfrom a beta readeri must tell you that everything ive read lately has bored me to tearsuntil today honestly i could not put taken down i was pleasantly surprised i felt the author captured each characters personality and conveyed them to the reader with such clarity that they felt like real people i was thrilled with how the book endedlucillafrom the authoryears ago a small child was taken from his home not far from where i live the child was never found his disappearance haunted me over the years and still does hopefully someday i will know what happened to that little boy it breaks my heart every time i hear a news report about a missing child so i suppose the disappearance of that little boy long ago and those heart breaking news stories is what drove me to write taken