Chapter Eleven
Ben was fifteen when he first heard about them. Wyatt Haim was the youngest of the Six. He’d been fifteen, just like Ben, when he and the other five vanished from the quiet northern California inlet town. Janie Grant. Billy Holtzman. Veronica and Marjory Morrow. Aaron and Wyatt Haim. The Santa Colette Six.
They’d all missed school on that day back in 2003. They weren’t known to run in the same circles, so no one noticed until Janie didn’t show up for her father’s birthday dinner. Some said they’d purposely hid the fact that they were friends. It was fall, and Santa Colette was known for its mist-laden cliffs and deep-black coastal waters. After searching the surrounding woods, that’s where the search continued: the beaches, the water, and the nearby counties, for fear that
