Sarah Durst: The Lost

I am so caught up in this daydream of my lost future that I don’t see the dust storm until it surrounds and swallows me. Everything blurs around me, as if a painter smeared the colors of the desert together. Blue sky fuses with red sand and then is gone. Sounds fade. I don’t hear the wind. Dust coats my body like a thin layer of mist. It pours into my mouth and soothes my raw throat. It embraces me.

I walk and then run into the dust.

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Find out what Lauren discovers in

THE MISSING

by Sarah Beth Durst

Coming soon!

This book was born at a stop light. One random day, I waited, blinker on, to turn left and thought, “What if I didn’t turn? What if I never turned?” And in that idle thought, The Lost was born. So I’d like to thank that intersection. I’d also like to thank my wonderful agent, Andrea Somberg, and my magnificent editor, Mary-Theresa Hussey, as well as all the other amazing people at Harlequin MIRA, for believing in this book. Many thanks and much love to my family, and especially to my husband and my children, who keep me from ever being lost.