This book cover confuses me in multiple ways. First, I don’t know what those images are behind the large title and author’s name. They are low-contrast to the point of near non-existence. If I choose to look closely — something I am not likely to do if I am browsing hundreds of books in a bookstore – I can decipher some kids (brother and sister?) in a field of some sort. I’ll have to assume these are the “lost children” the book is about, or at least two of them. There’s a generic building in the distance, that tells me nothing. At this point, I have to predict the book is about two kids in a field with a building.

The bottom quarter of the cover has another washed-out photo, albeit one with a little more color. Here I can see a propeller airplane on what looks like a remote runway somewhere. I can’t tell if this is present day or in the past, though the sepia tone suggests the latter.

What am I to make of this? I even have to look closely to see that it is “a novel” in the tiniest cursive font ever. Certainly, the title suggests non-fiction.

The cover tells me, in the same tiny font, that the author also wrote something called “Tell Me How It Ends.” I think that can apply to this book, too, since I have no intention of reading it.

WILD GUESS: Two kids during the 1950s are abducted in a rural part of the country. They are flown in a private plane to a rich couple in an urban setting. They were separated, and one of the kids has now grown up and discovers that not only were they abducted, but he and his sister were part of a large plan that did this to countless kids way back when. He seeks to find his sister, help other abducted kids, and bring the culprits to justice.