We come to it at last. The Great Sadness of our time.

Mack, having saved his bigger kid, realizes that Missy disappeared during the drama. Before long everyone is racing around the campsite and there's no sign of her. I'm not feeling salty right now. This is my nightmare.

The random camping friend, Vicki, is helping him look. Suddenly we know what she's thinking and feeling, which is weird because for 46 pages we've been solely in Mack's head.

Hours pass. Then someone reports seeing a little girl who matches Missy's appearance shoved into a truck. There is no sense of tension in the writing. It's so flat I'm not freaking out, but I'm too tired for freaking out, so that's okay with me.

More geographical locations are described. My current headache worsens. I have tinnitus in my ear. I don't want to be reading this.

They find a ladybug pin left on top of Missy's belongings. No one has ever seen the pin before. This could be really, really creepy and terrifying...but it's as dry as cornflakes without milk.

Police identify the ladybug pin as something always left behind by Little Ladykiller, a possible serial killer who targets little kids. Again, this has potential, but feels flat and contrived. None of the girls have ever been located.

Family arrives to help search the next day. The extraneous detail is agonizing. Everything is point-blank told to us. Every emotion, every thought, every facial expression.

And we have this paragraph where not a single word was necessary. Period!

The search takes to the road and we have about a dozen mentions of Interstate names on two pages. Do you see why it's impossible to get involved in this story?

At some point later, I don't even know or care how long, they find the dress Missy had on, now torn and covered in blood. It was found inside an old shack.

Days pass. They have a memorial service but no body is found. Then we awkwardly catch up to where we began, with Mack finding the note from "Papa" that tells him to come to the shack. Now, we know that Missy was possibly killer in the shack, and his anger makes more sense. The chapter ends with Mack thinking about how he's done with God.