Taking, The: a novel

An unnatural silence and a feeling that you are all alone in the world. . .? John and his daughter, Vera, grieve the loss of Vera's mother, who mysteriously disappeared when Vera was a baby. As John struggles to raise his troubled daughter, he dismisses connections between his wife?s disappearance and Vera?s bizarre dreams of otherworldly creatures. ? But when he finds Vera unconscious, lying in a ring of scorched trees, he begins to believe that a mysterious outside force is controlling her fate and his. ? ? The Taking?is a suspenseful story depicting a loving but difficult relationship between a father and daughter, amid the strange events that underlie their everyday life in a small New England town.?