8-year-old Leila Smith has seen and heard things that no child should ever have to. On the Hawthorn Estate, where she lives, she often stays out after dark to avoid going home.

But what Leila doesn't know is that someone has been watching her in the playground. One day, she disappears without a trace...

The police start a nationwide search but it's as if Leila has vanished into thin air. Who kidnapped her? What do they want? Will she return home safely or is she lost forever?

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