Sarah Jane âLuckyâ Carter is a big-boned, smart-mouthed sixteen-year-old. Willow Moonstone, Sarahâs legal guardian for the past five years, has vanished without a trace. The police believe sheâs been murdered. Willow always said They were after her because of What She Knew. Sarah and her friends thought it was all some paranoid fantasy left over from the 60s. Except that Willowâs missing now. Thatâs no fantasy. Sarahâs estranged father comes to take her home to live with his new family but she has no interest whatsoever in playing âBrady Bunchâ. All she wants is to get Willow back so they can go home. Then, out of the blue, a fierce stranger from Willowâs past turns up on Sarahâs doorstep bearing Willowâs diary from her radical student days in the late 1960s. Sarah becomes convinced the diary holds the clues to Willowâs disappearance, so she immerses herself in her auntâs diary and her life. As the weeks pass with no news of Willow, Sarah begins to panic. Timeâs running out and Willowâs trail is growing cold. Is she the only one who canât accept the truth? Is Willow really dead?
WHAT WILLOW KNEW by June Colbert is the suspenseful story of a teenage girlâs search for her missing aunt, but itâs also the story of Willowâs own journey from naïve university student to radical activist and complete paranoid ... Unless They were really after her, of course.