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Lydia Bisset has lived in the shadow of her high-profile abduction for years. Throughout her childhood, she was hounded by paparazzi, bullied in school, and stalked by a group of murderous young women from a satanic coven initiated by her powerful and corrupt family.
As the scandal slowly dies down, Lydia, a sixteen-year-old scientist in the making, attempts to lead a somewhat normal life. Driven by her deep affinity for and fascination with the natural world, Lydia takes up the study of entomology and attends a summer palynology course at UCSC.
While in Santa Cruz, she is confronted by odd encounters with a gregarious young man. At first, his blatant flirtatious manner is off-putting, but in time a burgeoning attraction develops as Lydia comes to understand that he is somehow connected to her past.
When, in her palynology course, Lydia conceives of a new way to investigate the mystery of an unidentified girl killed in an accident, detectives wonder if the mystery girl belongs to the cult Lydia once lived in as a child.
Meanwhile, on the outskirts of town, in a rural mountain community, a woman named Norma Hill is tormented by the thought that her stepdaughter, Patience—whose father hasn’t seen her in years—is not who she says she is.
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