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Start giftingThe Monsters We Make
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Learn moreIt's August 1984, and paperboy Christopher Stewart has gone missing.
Hours later, twelve-year-old Sammy Cox hurries home from his own paper route, red-faced and out of breath, hiding a terrible secret.
Crystal, Sammy's seventeen-year-old sister, is worried by the disappearance but she also sees an opportunity: the Stewart case has echoes of an earlier unsolved disappearance of another boy, one town over. Crystal senses the makings of an award-winning essay, one that could win her a scholarship—and a ticket out of their small Iowa town.
Officer Dale Goodkind can't believe his bad luck: another town and another paperboy kidnapping. But this time he vows that it won't go unsolved. As the abductions set in motion an unpredictable chain of violent, devastating events touching each life in unexpected ways, Dale is forced to face his own demons.
Told through interwoven perspectives—and based on the real-life Des Moines Register paperboy kidnappings in the early 1980s—The Monsters We Make deftly explores the effects of one crime exposing another and the secrets people keep hidden from friends, families, and, sometimes, even themselves.
Kali White is a talented author whose stories and essays have appeared in Midwestern Gothic, Nowhere Magazine, Poets & Writers, The Writer, and several anthologies. She received her master's degree in creative writing from Vermont College of Fine Arts and is currently a faculty member of the Lindenwood University MFA Creative Writing Program.
Mia Barron is an experienced narrator, actress, and writer. Her narration has earned her an Earphones Award, a Publishers Weekly Listen Up Award, and two Audie nominations. A graduate of New York University's Tisch School of the Arts, she's appeared on multiple television shows including Law & Order: Criminal Intent, Modern Family, and Bones.