FROM THE #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF THE INHERITANCE GAMES   In this unputdownable standalone mystery from Jennifer Lynn Barnes, a teenage girl, her friends, and their search-and-rescue dogs must uncover long-buried secrets to save a life. Kira Bennett's earliest memories are of living alone and wild in the woods. She has no idea how long she was on her own or what she had to do to survive, but she does remember the moment Cady Bennett and one of her search-and-rescue dogs found her. Adopted into the Bennett family, along with Cady’s son and a neighbhor, Kira learned to excels at the family business: training the world's most elite search-and-rescue dogs. Someday, all three teenagers hope to put their skills to use, finding the lost and bringing them home. When Cady's estranged father, the enigmatic Bales Bennett, tracks his daughter down and asks for her help in locating a missing child—one of several visitors who has disappeared in the Sierra Glades National Park in the past twelve months—the teens find themselves on the front lines sooner than they could have ever expected. Kira becomes obsessed with finding the missing child. She knows all too well what it's like to be lost in the wilderness, fighting for survival, alone. But there is more afoot than a single missing girl, and Kira's memories threaten to overwhelm her at every turn. As the danger mounts and long-held family secrets come to light, Kira is forced to question everything she thought she knew about her adopted family, her true nature, and her past. **Looking for more unputdownable reads from Jennifer Lynn Barnes? Check out The Naturals series  (The Naturals, Killer Instinct, All In, Bad Blood,  and the enovella,  Twelve) , The Debutantes duet ( Little White Lies, Deadly Little Scandals),  and The Inheritance Games Saga ( The Inheritance Games, The Hawthorne Legacy, The Final Gambit, The Brothers Hawthorne , Games Untold, and The Same Backward as Forward ), including the Grandest Game ( The Grandest Game  and  Glorious Rivals ), the thrilling new series set in the world of the Inheritance Games, and the stunningly romantic collection,  Games Untold Jennifer Lynn Barnes  is the #1  New York Times  bestselling author of more than twenty acclaimed young adult novels, including the Inheritance Games series , the Debutantes series, The Lovely and the Lost , and the Naturals series. Jen is also a Fulbright Scholar with advanced degrees in psychology, psychiatry, and cognitive science. She received her PhD from Yale University in 2012 and was a professor of psychology and professional writing at the University of Oklahoma for many years. She invites you to visit her online at jenniferlynnbarnes.com or follow her on Instagram @authorjenlynnbarnes. The Lovely and the Lost By Jennifer Lynn Barnes Disney Book Group Copyright © 2018 Jennifer Lynn Barnes All rights reserved. ISBN: 978-1-4847-7620-9 CHAPTER 1 Saint Jude was the patron saint of impossible causes. My foster brother took his namesake very seriously. In the eleven years since his mother had found me, half-wild and dying in a ravine, I had never once known Jude to throw in the towel when the odds were stacked against him. Jude Bennett had never met a lost cause he did not immediately embrace with the whole of his overly optimistic soul. I was a testament to that sometimes endearing, sometimes frustrating aspect of Jude's personality — and so was the fact that he was currently standing in the middle of a party at Hangman's Ridge, holding an old-school boom box over his head and blasting eighties music in the direction of a girl who literally did not know his name. As in, I had literally heard her call him Kyle. Twice. "Boy still insisting that Kyle is a nickname for Jude?" Free came to stand beside me, leaning back against the truck. She shook her long blond hair back over her shoulder and crossed one ankle over the other as she hooked her thumbs through the belt loops on her faded jeans. "He's moved on from nickname to term of endearment," I said, watching as Jude punched a fist into the sky. "Remind me to limit his consumption of John Hughes movies going forward." "Won't help," Free opined, reaching up to swat at a mosquito on her arm. "Cady say anything to you about whether or not she's going to let the military have Pad?" Free didn't believe in segues between one subject and the next. "Not a word," I said, taking my eyes off Jude long enough to get a better look at Free. "Why? Did she say something to you? " Pad, short for Padawan — Jude's choice of name, not mine — was a fourteen-month-old golden retriever and quicker on the uptake than any other dog we'd trained. Jude and Free were holding out hope that Cady — Jude's mother and my foster mother — would keep our star pupil, but every time I took Pad out, I could feel her energy, her determination. She needed to run, to track, to find. She needed more than we could give her. "I am not Cady'