<b>NATIONAL BESTSELLER &bull; <i>PEOPLE</i> PICK &bull;</b> <b>OPTIONED BY SISTER PICTURES FOR TELEVISION &bull;</b> <b>The discovery of a girl abandoned by the side of the road threatens to unearth the long-buried secrets of a Texas town&rsquo;s legendary cold case in this superb, atmospheric novel from the internationally bestselling author of <i>Black-Eyed Susans</i></b><br><b>&ldquo;If you only read one thriller this year, let it be this one.&#160;Psychologically absorbing, original and atmospheric. I could not turn the pages fast enough.&rdquo;&mdash;Elin Hilderbrand, #1 <i>New York Times</i> bestselling author of <i>28 Summers</i></b><br> It&rsquo;s been a decade since Trumanell Branson disappeared, leaving only a bloody handprint behind. Her pretty face still hangs like a watchful queen on the posters on the walls of the town&rsquo;s Baptist church, the police station, and in the high school. They all promise the same thing: We will find you. Meanwhile, her brother, Wyatt, lives as a pariah in the desolation of the old family house, cleared of wrongdoing by the police but tried and sentenced in the court of public opinion and in a new documentary about the crime.<br> When Wyatt finds a lost girl dumped in a field of dandelions, making silent wishes, he believes she is a sign. The town&rsquo;s youngest cop, Odette Tucker, believes she is a catalyst that will ignite a seething town still waiting for its own missing girl to come home. But Odette can&rsquo;t look away. She shares a wound that won&rsquo;t close with the mute, one-eyed mystery girl. And she is haunted by her own history with the missing Tru.<br> Desperate to solve both cases, Odette fights to save the lost girl in the present and to dig up the shocking truth about a fateful night in the past&mdash;the night her friend disappeared, the night that inspired her to become a cop, the night that wrote them all a role in the town&rsquo;s dark, violent mythology.<br> In this twisty psychological thriller, Julia Heaberlin paints unforgettable portraits of a woman and a girl who redefine perceptions of physical beauty and strength.<br><b>Praise for <i>We Are All the Same in the Dark</i></b><br>&ldquo;This chilling tale of buried sins is relentlessly unpredictable.&rdquo;<b>&mdash;<i>The Times</i> (South Africa)</b><br>&ldquo;[Julia] Heaberlin knows how to build to a truly shocking twist, how to break a reader&rsquo;s heart and then begin mending it. &lsquo;What&rsquo;s coming is always unimaginable,&rsquo; Odette&rsquo;s one-time therapist tells her, &lsquo;and by that, I mean just that. It cannot be imagined. What&rsquo;s coming never acts or behaves the way we think it will.&rsquo; That&rsquo;s true for this novel, too.&rdquo;<b>&mdash;<i>The</i> <i>Dallas Morning News</i></b>