

Then Darryl Stokes returns to Repentance.

Now the first female sheriff of her rural town, she’s also a single mother raising her twelve-year-old daughter Felicity while pining after her childhood crush, Parnell. In some ways, Mary Grace has moved on from that awful year. That was when I really wanted to disappear, just vanish without a trace. It wasn’t my face staring out from the missing children posters tacked to every tree. I wasn’t the one search parties went combing the woods to find, while folks prayed they wouldn’t come home with a body to bury. That summer twenty-four years ago, right before it all started, I was the one who wanted to disappear.īut three months later, I wasn’t the reason for the panic tearing through town. I was coming up on the anniversary of my parents’ death when the girls began disappearing. Mary Grace Dobbs remembers that year very well-she was a sixth-grader herself, a classmate of the missing girls. Twenty-four years ago, two eleven-year-old girls disappeared in the small town of Repentance, Arkansas.
