
Then the dolls begin appearing everywhere, and Finn starts getting some pretty strange emails that may be from Layla herself. Now she's found a little Russian nesting doll on the sidewalk in front of their house, similar to a doll that was found at the place where Layla disappeared. Finn, who narrates, makes it clear that Ellen is no Layla and constantly tries to convince himself that he truly (really!) loves her. Finn gets another surprise when he arrives at the home he shares with, wait for it, Layla’s sister Ellen -now his fiancee-whom he evidently bonded with while mourning Layla’s disappearance. He was eventually cleared as a suspect and is shocked when Exeter-based police detective Tony Heddon contacts him with the news that an ex-neighbor of Finn and Layla’s claims to have seen her outside of their old cottage in Devon. Twelve years ago, Finn McQuaid’s girlfriend, Layla Gray, disappeared without a trace while they visited a rest stop while on holiday in France. A man whose girlfriend disappeared more than a decade ago suspects she may still be alive.
