She knew she would die – she wanted to die. Death would end the beating, the brain-washing, the warped torture in the crazed commune.
Once she was innocent. When Erin came to Bess Porter's house she knew little of the world. But Bess was a detective haunted by her own grisly past, obsessed with the dark side of the mind.
Bess needed Erin as bait for a trap: she needed her to risk disappearance and even death. She needed her to become one of the LITTLE GIRLS LOST.
Doris Giroux Shannon was born in Elmira, New York, daughter of Edwin Giroux and Elizabeth Graham. Married Frank Shannon in 1947. They had two children.
She also wrote under the pseudonym 'E.X. Giroux'. Under that pseudonym she created 'Robert Forsythe', a retired barrister in London.