"Nothing gold can stay." — Robert Frost
When thirty-two-year-old Katie Chapman vanishes during an early morning run, Nantucket detectives Tina Fisch and Rick Caton treat it as what it appears to be — a shocking but isolated abduction on an island that prides itself on safety and discretion.
It isn't isolated. It isn't random. She was chosen.
For Rick, the case is personal. After solving the suspicious death of a close family friend on the island the prior fall, he walked away from the FBI and returned to Nantucket — and to the police department that had forced him out a decade earlier.
As the investigation unfolds, the detectives uncover disturbing clues that point to something far more sinister than a random crime.
Beneath Nantucket’s postcard-perfect façade lies a pattern no one has recognized — a ritual that has quietly persisted for nearly forty years. And Katie may be its next sacrifice.
People have disappeared before. Always quietly. Always without resolution. And always chosen — selected by someone who believes their sacrifice serves a purpose far beyond anything the outside world would understand.
Katie is still alive. But she's running out of time — and what she's learning in captivity is more dangerous than her captor realizes.
Now past and present are colliding — and Tina and Rick must find a man who has walked these streets for forty years, quietly devoted, utterly certain, and completely invisible. Because on Nantucket, the most dangerous man isn't the one consumed by darkness. It's the one who believes, with complete sincerity, that he is made of light.
LAST SEEN ON NANTUCKET is a gripping, atmospheric thriller perfect for fans of Harlan Coben, Michael Connelly, and Tana French.