The Last School Bus: A Gripping Psychological Thriller

When a school bus disappears during a violent storm, the whole town searches for the missing children. Only one child comes back. Elsie Ward is found walking barefoot along the roadside, soaked, silent, and clutching a crayon drawing of a house no one wants to recognize. Every time someone asks where the other children are, Elsie draws the same house again. Mara Ellis knows children. She knows trauma. And she knows the drawing is not random. But in a town built on old favors and older lies, every answer points to someone with something to lose. The bus route was changed. The records are missing. The house in Elsie's picture should not exist anymore. And the longer Mara searches, the more certain she becomes of one terrifying truth: The children were not taken by a stranger. They were taken by someone everyone trusts. For readers of Ruth Ware and Shari Lapena - a chilling small-town thriller about the stories a town tells itself, and the ones it buries.