
The Nature of Disappearing
A Novel
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Emily Pike Stewart
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"Emily Pike Stewart’s narration brings the entire story to life. I sometimes had to remind myself that this wasn’t a great true crime or wilderness podcast, but a novel."—The Berkshire Eagle
In this captivating novel of suspense from the USA Today bestselling author of These Silent Woods, a wilderness guide must team up with the man who ruined her life years ago when the friend who introduced them goes missing.
Emlyn doesn't let herself think about the past.
How she and her best friend, Janessa, barely speak anymore. How Tyler, the love of her life, left her half dead on the side of the road three years ago.
Her new life is simple and safe. She lives alone in her Airstream trailer and works as a fishing and hunting guide in scenic Idaho. Her closest friends are the community's makeshift reverend and a handsome Forest Service ranger who took her in at her lowest.
But when Tyler shows up with the news that Janessa is missing, Emlyn is propelled back into the world she worked so hard to forget. Janessa has become a social media star, documenting her #vanlife adventures with her rugged boyfriend. She hasn't posted lately, though, and when Emlyn realizes the most recent photo doesn't match up with its caption, she reluctantly joins Tyler to find her old friend. As the two trace Janessa's path through miles of wild country, Emlyn can't deny the chemistry still crackling between them. But the deeper they press into the wilderness, the more she begins to suspect that a darker truth lies in the woods—and that Janessa isn't the only one in danger.
Poignant, suspenseful, and unforgettable, Kimi Cunningham Grant's THE NATURE OF DISAPPEARING explores what it takes to start over—and the cost of letting the past pull you back in.
A Macmillan Audio production from Minotaur Books.
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Critic reviews
“Electric and wise, The Nature of Disappearing is the most inspired thriller on my bookshelf. Grant absolutely nails the magnetic strength of a woman caught in a foreboding landscape. Like me, you'll fly through this novel and fall in love with Emlyn as she reckons with a lush, unforgiving wilderness and a past tangled with desire, loyalty, and lies.”–Amy Jo Burns, author of Shiner and Mercury
“The Nature of Disappearing is like a mountain trail that turns and climbs and turns again. Kimi Cunningham Grant weaves a solid adventure about friendship and betrayal and hope amidst beautifully rendered western landscapes—all of it bracing as a mountain lake.”–Andrew J. Graff, author of Raft of Stars
"The Nature of Disappearing is, at its heart, a story about the relentless survival of the human spirit and inescapable connections. Through artful prose and dual timeline storytelling, Kimi Cunningham Grant reminds us that, sometimes, we have to get lost to find ourselves."–Hannah Morrissey, author of When I'm Dead
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Fascinating time, people and place
- By Claudio Salusso on 10-01-21
By: Jasmin Darznik
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The Lost for Words Bookshop
- A Novel
- By: Stephanie Butland
- Narrated by: Imogen Church
- Length: 8 hrs and 58 mins
- Unabridged
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Loveday Cardew prefers books to people. If you look carefully, you might glimpse the first lines of the novels she loves most tattooed on her skin. But there are some things Loveday will never, ever show you. Into her hiding place - the bookstore where she works - come a poet, a lover, and three suspicious deliveries. Someone has found out about her mysterious past. Will Loveday survive her own heartbreaking secrets?
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I thoroughly enjoyed this story.
- By Tammy on 11-09-18
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When We Were Silent
- A Novel
- By: Fiona McPhillips
- Narrated by: India Mullen
- Length: 10 hrs and 28 mins
- Unabridged
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Louise Manson is the newest student at Highfield Manor, Dublin’s most exclusive private school. It seems nearly perfect: the high arched window alcoves and tall granite pillars, the overspill of lilac at the front gate and the immaculate playing fields, the giggling students, the dusty, oak-lined library, and the dark, festering secret she has come to expose. At first, Lou’s working-class status makes her the consummate outsider, though all that changes when she is befriended by the beautiful and wealthy Shauna Power.
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Loved!
- By Jenni on 10-22-24
By: Fiona McPhillips
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The Shadow Key
- A Novel
- By: Susan Stokes-Chapman
- Narrated by: Richard Harrington
- Length: 13 hrs and 15 mins
- Unabridged
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On an isolated estate in late-eighteenth-century rural Wales, a young English doctor uncovers dangerous secrets that may threaten his own life in this spellbinding Gothic tale from the bestselling author of Pandora.
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So fun!
- By Lauren Brumsted on 12-08-24
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The Party
- A Novel
- By: Robyn Harding
- Narrated by: Cassandra Campbell
- Length: 9 hrs and 36 mins
- Unabridged
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In this stunning and provocative domestic drama about a sweet 16 birthday party that goes horribly awry, a wealthy family in San Francisco finds their picture-perfect life unraveling, their darkest secrets revealed, and their friends turned to enemies.
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Not one likable character
- By Lynn R. on 10-10-17
By: Robyn Harding
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Knife River
- A Novel
- By: Justine Champine
- Narrated by: Jennifer Pickens
- Length: 12 hrs and 7 mins
- Unabridged
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When Jess was thirteen, her mother went for a walk and never returned. Jess and her older sister, Liz, never found out what happened. Instead, they did what they hoped their mother had done: survive. As soon as she was old enough, Jess fled their small town of Knife River, wandering from girlfriend to girlfriend like a ghost in her own life, aimless in her attempts to outrun grief and confusion. But one morning, fifteen years after their mother’s disappearance, she gets the call she’s been bracing for: Her mother’s remains have been found.
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Realistic and vivid characters navigating a mystery
- By Stevie on 11-16-24
By: Justine Champine
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The Two-Family House
- A Novel
- By: Linda Cohen Loigman
- Narrated by: Barrie Kreinik
- Length: 8 hrs and 54 mins
- Unabridged
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Brooklyn, 1947: In the midst of a blizzard, in a two-family brownstone, two babies are born minutes apart to two women. They are sisters by marriage, with an impenetrable bond forged before and during that dramatic night; but as the years progress, small cracks start to appear, and their once deep friendship begins to unravel. No one knows why, and no one can stop it. One misguided choice; one moment of tragedy. Heartbreak wars with happiness and almost but not quite wins.
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A Two Family Saga
- By Sara on 08-17-17
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The Babysitter Lives
- By: Stephen Graham Jones
- Narrated by: Isabella Star LaBlanc, Stephen Graham Jones - acknowledgments
- Length: 7 hrs and 34 mins
- Unabridged
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When high school senior Charlotte agrees to babysit the Wilbanks twins, she plans to put the six-year-olds to bed early and spend a quiet night studying: the SATs are tomorrow, and checking the Native American/Alaskan Native box on all the forms doesn’t mean jack if you choke on test day. But tomorrow is also Halloween, and the twins are eager to show off their costumes—Ron is a nurse, in an old-fashioned white skirt-uniform, and Desi has an Authentic Squaw costume, complete with buckskin and feathered headdress. Excitement is in the air.
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Huh
- By Amanda Lyn on 02-21-23
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The Guest Book
- A Novel
- By: Sarah Blake
- Narrated by: Orlagh Cassidy
- Length: 17 hrs and 14 mins
- Unabridged
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No. It is a simple word, uttered on a summer porch in 1936. And it will haunt Kitty Milton for the rest of her life. Kitty and her husband, Ogden, are both from families considered the backbone of the country. But this refusal will come to be Kitty’s defining moment, and its consequences will ripple through the Milton family for generations. For while they summer on their island in Maine, anchored as they are to the way things have always been, the winds of change are beginning to stir.
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Reader mispronounced too many words
- By Catherine Newton on 05-19-19
By: Sarah Blake
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Silver Like Dust
- One Family's Story of America's Japanese Internment
- By: Kimi Cunningham Grant
- Narrated by: Emily Woo Zeller
- Length: 7 hrs and 36 mins
- Unabridged
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Kimi’s Obaachan, her grandmother, had always been a silent presence throughout her youth. Sipping tea by the fire, preparing sushi for the family, or indulgently listening to Ojichan’s (grandfather’s) stories for the thousandth time, Obaachan was a missing link to Kimi’s Japanese heritage, something she had had a mixed relationship with all her life. Growing up in rural Pennsylvania, all Kimi ever wanted to do was fit in, spurning traditional Japanese cuisine and her grandfather’s attempts to teach her the language.
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A New LIfe
- By Kindle Customer on 08-14-12
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The Hush
- By: John Hart
- Narrated by: Jeremy Bobb
- Length: 14 hrs and 22 mins
- Unabridged
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It's been 10 years since the events that changed Johnny Merrimon's life and rocked his hometown to the core. Since then, Johnny has fought to maintain his privacy, but books have been written of his exploits; he has fans, groupies. Living alone in the wilderness beyond town, Johnny's only connection to normal life is his old friend, Jack. They're not boys anymore, but the bonds remain. What they shared. What they lost.
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WOW!! Let's discuss thin novel!
- By Wayne on 03-06-18
By: John Hart
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The Topeka School
- A Novel
- By: Ben Lerner
- Narrated by: Nancy Linari, Peter Berkrot, Tristan Wright
- Length: 10 hrs and 34 mins
- Unabridged
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Adam Gordon is a senior at Topeka High School, class of ’97. His mother, Jane, is a famous feminist author; his father, Jonathan, is an expert at getting "lost boys" to open up. They both work at a psychiatric clinic that has attracted staff and patients from around the world. Adam is a renowned debater, expected to win a national championship before he heads to college. He is one of the cool kids, ready to fight or, better, freestyle about fighting if it keeps his peers from thinking of him as weak.
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Strong novel about 1990s
- By citizen, jazzmania on 01-11-20
By: Ben Lerner
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Blood Orange
- By: Harriet Tyce
- Narrated by: Julie Teal
- Length: 9 hrs and 57 mins
- Unabridged
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Alison has it all. A doting husband, adorable daughter, and a career on the rise - she's just been given her first murder case to defend. But all is never as it seems...Just one more night. Then I'll end it. Alison drinks too much. She's neglecting her family. And she's having an affair with a colleague whose taste for pushing boundaries may be more than she can handle. I did it. I killed him. I should be locked up. Alison's client doesn't deny that she stabbed her husband - she wants to plead guilty. And yet something about her story is deeply amiss.
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Not one likeable character.
- By Tammy on 04-12-19
By: Harriet Tyce
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Haven Point
- A Novel
- By: Virginia Hume
- Narrated by: Cassandra Campbell
- Length: 13 hrs and 50 mins
- Unabridged
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A sweeping debut novel about the generations of a family that spends summers in a seaside enclave on Maine's rocky coastline, for fans of Elin Hilderbrand, Beatriz Williams, and Sarah Blake.
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Great story written and read
- By Beeb on 06-25-21
By: Virginia Hume
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- downtown
- 07-05-24
A great suspense with a bit of romance
I love Kimi Cunningham Grants prose and steady tension. And this was a great wilderness setting for a suspense.
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- GioSailor
- 02-20-25
Good but not super great
This was a good listen, but nowhere near as good as her previous book These Silent Woods, which is phenomenal. I enjoyed the excellent narrator, and several sections of the story were very good - but it has a few weak moments story-wise, and also the back and forth in time gets a bit tiresome.
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- David Dronkowski
- 07-23-24
Artis
Book was hard to follow sometime on the timeline. The story was good but a little far fitched.
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- CountryGirl28
- 06-30-24
Kimi is becoming an autobuy
The language is so vivid! I could easily picture the story in my mind and i could relate to Emlyn. The pacing is fantastic! I’m a fan of time jumps so i enjoyed how the past was woven with the present! I wish we got more of Varden! The narrator does great job!
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- Caroline
- 09-01-24
Not quite as expected...
Kimi Cunningham Grant has a deep knowledge of the outdoors, offering readers beautifully detailed descriptions of nature and wilderness. These vivid depictions make it feel like you are tracking along with Emlyn and Tyler. However, I struggled to connect with Emelyn, the main character, finding the supporting characters more interesting and wishing for deeper insight into their lives.
Overall, it was a great read, especially if you love an atmospheric setting and nature/wilderness novels. I would classify it more as a slow burn suspense than a thriller.
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- Gotlost.onpurpose
- 04-20-25
So good! Kept me guessing
Loved this book so much. I love that this author doesn’t make the endings predictable.
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- E. Marisol
- 09-27-24
I’ll ready anything by Grant!!
I started listening to this book when life was busy and hectic. There is a calm rhythm to this book that drew me in, and gave me a visceral sense of its setting and flow. It isn’t a big thriller, but it’s still really good and so many aspects of it are relatable from the “all-aspects-human” perspective. This was really good and now I have to find another good book to listen to. Wish me luck!
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- asbdljsadhbjls
- 09-29-24
Love the Author
The story is captivating and I love how she tells E’s story slowly along the way.
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- Judy
- 07-14-24
Touching novel
loved the setting and seeing a girl that is smart, interesting and beautiful that feels she is unworthy and unlovable turn into a woman that fi ally sees she is worthy
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- Ezmeralda
- 04-02-25
Suspenseful wording
I liked how each person has their own personality and the imagery was consistent with audio
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