The Amateurs, Book 3 by Sara Shepard

Author:Sara Shepard
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Disney Book Group
Published: 2018-11-05T16:00:00+00:00

“SAY WHAT?” MADDOX stared at Seneca in horror.

Seneca clutched the picture so hard that the edges crinkled. Not far away, a wave crashed. A car passed on the beach road playing loud hip-hop. A bird—or maybe a bat—soared silently over their heads, giving him a shiver.

“Could they be the real kids of Elizabeth-Sadie-Heather-whatever-her-name-is?” Seneca repeated. “They look just like her.”

“Let’s see if there’s any record of her having kids.” Madison’s fingers flew on her phone.

“And maybe their names are Julia and Alex,” Seneca said.

Maddox looked at her, surprised. “You mean the names Elizabeth called Viola and Brett?”

“It’s just a thought.”

Maddox stared at the rising moon over the ocean. Was it possible?

Madison sank down until she was sitting in the sand. “Okay, I’m not finding anything about Sadie Sage or Elizabeth Ivy having children of her own named Julia and Alex, though I suppose it might not be in any records. If Elizabeth went by another name when she had the kids, that’s what would be on their birth certificates.”

“Keep looking,” Seneca advised. She held up the photo. “Maybe we can reverse-search this image. Maybe it’s on Facebook or something.”

They uploaded the image on TinEye, but there were no results. “I’m not surprised,” Madison said. “This photo looks over fifteen years old. We weren’t taking millions of pictures of ourselves and our kids like we do now. Did cell phones even have cameras back then?”

The wind was whipping Seneca’s hair into her face, but she didn’t seem to notice. “Okay, so Sadie Sage had kids. And maybe their names were Julia and Alex. If this photo was taken more than fifteen years ago, those kids would be in their twenties now. Are we thinking maybe they know where Sadie’s hiding?”

“Maybe,” Maddox said, not having considered that. “So how could we find them? They might be able to tell us a lot.”

“It won’t be easy going on first names only,” Seneca grumbled. She sat down on the curb and rubbed her temples. “What does all this mean?”

Everyone kept clicking on their phones as the sun sank over the horizon. Social media sites, chat rooms, news channels—but they didn’t know what to search for, exactly. It wasn’t like Julia and Alex were going to do some tell-all on the Today show as the children of a crazy kidnapper mother. And because their names were fairly common, they couldn’t pin down surefire matches that lived in Catskill or northern Jersey, which Viola was pretty sure was Heather’s home base when she gave piano lessons to Brett.

Stuck, they trudged back onto the street and tried Thomas at the hospital. He was awake, and Seneca filled him in on the details of what they’d discovered. “There’s something you guys haven’t considered,” Thomas said. “Julia and Alex might be twenty-whatever years old now, but they were kids when Brett and Viola were captured. So where were they when all that was happening?”

“Living with their father, maybe?” Madison suggested. “Mom and Dad didn’t get along?”

“That’s possible,” Thomas said. “A lot of kidnappers are non-custodial parents.

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