02387cam a2200301 i 4500 608098746 TxAuBib 20221102120000.0 220407s2022||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2022014656 9780593499306 hardcover 0593499301 hardcover TxAuBib rda Adams, Erin E.,. Jackal : a novel / Erin E. Adams. First edition. New York, New York : Bantam Books, 2022. 328 pages ; 24 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier It’s watching. Liz Rocher is coming home . . . reluctantly. As a Black woman, Liz doesn’t exactly have fond memories of Johnstown, Pennsylvania, a predominantly white town. But her best friend is getting married, so she braces herself for a weekend of awkward, passive-aggressive reunions. Liz has grown, though; she can handle whatever awaits her. But on the day of the wedding, somewhere between dancing and dessert, the couple’s daughter, Caroline, disappears—and the only thing left behind is a piece of white fabric covered in blood. It’s taking. As a frantic search begins, with the police combing the trees for Caroline, Liz is the only one who notices a pattern: A summer night. A missing girl. A party in the woods. She’s seen this before. Keisha Woodson, the only other Black girl in Liz’s high school, walked into the woods with a mysterious man and was later found with her chest cavity ripped open and her heart removed. Liz shudders at the thought that it could have been her, and now, with Caroline missing, it can’t be a coincidence. As Liz starts to dig through the town’s history, she uncovers a horrifying secret about the place she once called home. Children have been going missing in these woods for years. All of them Black. All of them girls. It’s your turn. With the evil in the forest creeping closer, Liz knows what she must do: find Caroline, or be entirely consumed by the darkness." -Baker & Taylor. 20221102. Missing persons Fiction. African American teenage girls Fiction. Detective and mystery stories. Johnstown (Cambria County, Pa.) Fiction.