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Set in 1975, fellow outcasts, Saint and Patch are best friends, navigating high school in small town Missouri. Girls have been going missing, are they runaways, tired of small town life, or is it something much more sinister? When Patch witnesses an attack and attempted abduction of the local golden girl, Misty, he becomes a town hero with consequences that will last a lifetime. While trying to stop the abduction, Patch himself is wounded and taken, leaving Saint alone and reeling. The local police chief may have given up on finding Patch and the missing girls, but Saint can’t. Little does Saint know that looking for Patch and his kidnapper will shape her entire future. After being taken, Patch is kept in total darkness, his only companions are his own thoughts and Grace, a girl that brings him food and nurses him back to health. She tells him stories of the outside world, but while she seems so real to Patch, could she be just a figment of his fevered imagination? In this story, small town dynamics intersect with the secrets people keep, and how lives lived so close together can become inextricably intertwined, yet the question remains, do we ever really know our neighbors. Filled with tragedy and loss, survivor’s guilt and obsession, this novel follows Patch and Saint as they search for answers after that one fateful day where everything changed. A story that spans decades and told from the point of view of multiple characters, All the Colors of the Dark will take the reader on a journey of redemption, love, and loyalty.

Whitaker, Chris. All the Colors of the Dark. Crown. 2024.