Fear stalks the innocent 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.