This fictionalized work is based off of the works of Diana Gabaldon and Deborah Harkness respectively. I do not claim to own or take credit for the characters, events or plots from their work. The following prologue is modified from an excerpt of Outlander by Diana Gabaldon, changed to suit the story to which it precedes. I do not claim credit for the structure or basic form of this prologue. The characters and events in this book are fictitious. Any apparent similarity to real persons, including names, histories etc. is not intended by the author.
Prologue: People disappear all the time…People disappear all the time. Ask any policeman. Better yet, ask a blogger. Disappearances are bread-and-butter to bloggers.
Young people run away from the pre-constructed ideals of their parents, teens are lured away by internet enigmas with empty promises never to be seen again. Husbands endure years of abuse and reach the end of their ropes when society refuses to recognize their trauma, so they board a greyhound bus bound for anywhere. International celebrities change their names and vanish from the limelight into the fog of normalcy.
Many of the lost will be found, eventually, dead or alive. Disappearances, after all, have explanations.
Usually.