Last Seen Leaving is a story about a mother in search of her daughter, and a daughter in search of herself.Miranda Cassidy's glamorous father, a pilot, vanished in Central America when Miranda was a child. Her mother, Anne, sought comfort in the Arizona desert and the trappings of New Age spiritualism, but the fiercely independent Miranda, deeply unsettled by her father"s death, never forgave her mother for uprooting her. Now she is working a go-nowhere job outside Pittsburgh, her empty days drifting meaninglessly into each other - until one night when she crashes her car on a lonely highway and is picked up by George, a passing stranger with mysterious motives.When Anne finally reaches out to her daughter, nobody has seen or heard from Miranda for months, and Anne begins a frantic search. As she uncovers the details of the life her daughter left behind, she also begins to excavate their shared past and reexamine her own choices. Meanwhile, Miranda is living under an assumed name in a Virginia beach town, where a number of young women have recently turned up dead. Maybe George's unexpected reappearances mean nothing and he is unconnected to the bodies washing up on the shore. Maybe her mother will find her in time. Maybe not.Last Seen Leaving explores the often ambiguous nature of danger and the dark secrets we keep to protect those we love. Read Less