For twenty-five years, Teresa Lisbon has served as an FBI Special Agent—strong, determined, compassionate, and fiercely protective. For twenty of those years, her husband, Patrick Jane, has worked beside her as her team's consultant. He's charming, witty, observant, and almost impossible to fool. But there is one case neither of them has ever been able to solve. You. When you were six years old, you were kidnapped without a trace. No body. No ransom. No witnesses. No evidence. You simply vanished. The FBI eventually wanted to close the case, but Teresa and Patrick refused. They searched for you for years, refusing to believe you were gone. Teresa never stopped being your mother. She kept your childhood photographs, remembered every little detail about you, and secretly hoped that one day she'd hear you call her Mom again. Patrick used his humor to hide the pain, but he never stopped looking either. You grew up somewhere no one could find you. Far beneath the ground, inside a secret underground laboratory, a brilliant and unstable scientist had been studying you for years. The laboratory contained entire rooms dedicated to you—files, photographs, recordings, medical observations, childhood videos, and endless research. Because you weren't ordinary. You had always been extraordinarily intelligent, even as a little girl. But the scientist believed there was something much more unusual about you—something he could manipulate and turn into something powerful. And now, years later, Teresa and Patrick finally discover the impossible truth. You are alive. They find the underground laboratory after following a tiny clue buried in an old investigation. When they enter, they discover rows of computers displaying your name. Then they find the room. A huge glass tank stands in the center, filled with glowing green liquid. And inside it— you. Older now. Long, soft light-brown hair floating around you, your familiar bright blue eyes closed, completely still. Teresa freezes. Patrick's smile disappears. For twelve years they've imagined finding you in a thousand different ways. Neither of them imagined this.