When Reeve and Janie leave town to look for Janie’s biological family, Reeve says their parents will figure they went off to have sex. Her friend urges her on, saying the guy is not asking Janie to sleep with him or anything. She flirts with another boy, wondering if flirting will cause one thing to lead to another. When Jamie feeds Reeve cake, his lips and tongue touch her fingers with every bite. When Reeve first kisses Janie, she says it felt like a romance novel in which the man was so frantic with passion that he pulled the woman off of a horse or out of a carriage and onto the bed. Janie looks at herself naked in the mirror and likes her body. Janie says the town’s scenic overlook is better known to teens as the sexual overlook because you can go there to watch couples in action. As the book ends, Janie telephones the New Jersey family.

They agree that Janie needs to contact her biological parents. She talks to Janie’s parents, revealing Hannah’s possible role in the kidnapping.

Reeve asks his lawyer sister to get involved. She continues to research her kidnapping and comes to believe that maybe Hannah, not the parents she loves, really kidnapped her. She doesn’t talk to anyone there, but she sees children who look like her and is convinced they’re her siblings. She makes Reeve drive her to New Jersey in an effort to locate the people she believes are her family of origin. Janie isn’t sure her parents’ story adds up. They changed their last name and, frequently, their location so cult members wouldn’t find and try to take Janie. Hannah’s parents raised Janie as if she were their own. But the cult’s hold on her was too strong, and Hannah eventually left home again, alone. Hannah returned one day with a child, saying she wanted to escape. Their daughter, Hannah, became deeply involved in a Hare Krishna cult and left home.

They admit that Janie is their granddaughter. When Janie can no longer stand the suspense, she confronts her parents. He urges her not to rock the boat by trying to find her biological parents. Reeve is mainly interested in having sex with Janie and maintaining a stable relationship between their two families. She shares her secret with Reeve, the neighbor with whom she’s developing a romance. Though she adores her parents and doesn’t want to upend her comfortable life, she’s no longer sure she can trust the people she believed were her mom and dad.

She realizes that she is the child that was abducted 12 years earlier. During school lunch one day, she sees a picture of a missing girl on a milk carton. Fifteen-year-old Janie Johnson has a happy life, good friends and loving parents.

Janie face on the milk carton