02086cam a2200325 i 4500 1140540100 TxAuBib 20240206120000.0 211201s2022||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2021042273 9781728248691 trade paperback 1728248698 trade paperback TxAuBib rda Beyfuss, Brooke,. After we were stolen : a novel / Brooke Beyfuss. Naperville, Illinois : Sourcebooks Landmark, [2022] viii, 388 pages ; 21 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier "One night, Avery is awoken by a fire consuming her family's compound; she runs away with her cult brother Cole, hiding in the woods and then in a school gym for weeks. After police apprehend them for shoplifting, a horrific discovery is made-their entire lives have been a lie and they were actually kidnapped as children, taken by the cult leaders they knew as Mom and Dad. Cole is quickly reunited with his family and permanently separated from nineteen-year-old Avery, who is taken to a women's shelter when no family comes forward. Avery isn't certain who survived the Bakelite cult fire or, more importantly, who set it. As she tries to move past the lies and the emotional and physical trauma of her childhood, the events of that fateful night come bursting back into the news, and a police investigation throws Avery back into the spotlight. The memories of that night and her former life threaten to undo all the progress she's made, but she must uncover the truth about the fire to truly be set free"-- Provided by publisher. 20240206. Cults Fiction. Kidnapping victims Fiction. Thrillers (Fiction.) Suspense fiction. Bildungsromans. Novels. fast Beyfuss, Brooke., Naperville, Illinois : Sourcebooks Landmark, [2022].