The Forest of Missing Girls

By: Nichelle Giraldes

Narrated by: Emily Lawrence, Gail Shalan

The forest is hungry, and her family's secrets are tangled in the trees…
Lia Gregg always hoped to outgrow her fear of the woods surrounding her childhood home. The dark, menacing trees have long been the site of whispered legends and disappearances of girls like her. But after a breakup sends her back to live with her family, the woods feel more sinister than ever.
When a teenage girl disappears from their backyard, Lia's childhood fear becomes terrifyingly real. The missing girls are no longer just faces on the news. Now, the danger is closer than she imagined, and her younger sister could be next.
As Lia digs into the disappearances, she begins to suspect her mother knows more about the forest—and the horrors within—than she's letting on. To save her sister and uncover the truth, Lia must confront the secrets lurking in the trees and the darkness they conceal…before it's too late.


"Hauntingly powerful." —Darcy Coates, USA Today bestselling author, for No Child of Mine
"Haunting and eerie…will chill your spine. I highly recommend it." —Amy Lukavics, author of Daughters Unto Devils, for No Child of Mine

Spoiler warning: Dark, Twisted, and Completely Addictive

This audiobook slowly unravels its mystery in a way that completely pulled me in. The tension builds layer by layer until the full horror reveals itself — disturbing, emotional, and impossible to look away from.

The story blends murderous horror, tree magic, and unsettling body horror, all driven by a terrifying obsession with perfection. At its core is a fractured family dynamic that turns grief, love, and ambition into something monstrous. At times, it felt like a female-driven mass-murder origin story mixed with Frankenstein themes of creation, control, and moral decay.

What stood out most is how different this felt from anything else I’ve read — strange, intimate, and deeply unsettling, especially in audiobook form. If you enjoy horror rooted in obsession and transformation, this one will stay with you long after it ends.