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Bobbie Lou
✨First Million WordsFounding word contributor
How it was earned: Published work that helped Lantern reach its first one million story words.
Dark secrets. Real-world stakes. Impossible choices. Thrillers where the danger is real—but the people matter more.
Emotional ThrillersPsychological ThrillersMystery Thrillers. Adult and YA books.
3,435published words across 1 Lantern story
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About the author
I write emotional thrillers inspired by real-world issues and the stories that unfold behind the headlines. Expect dark themes, complicated characters, found family, and suspense with heart—without profanity, explicit sex, or graphic violence. When I'm not writing, you'll usually find me reading, overthinking or chasing my dog.
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- Unless the topic is love... I choose quiet over loud
- little over much and quick over steady.
On Lantern
Stories by Bobbie Lou
Thriller
Who Gets Missed
Some kids disappear long before anyone starts looking.
When a teenage boy’s body surfaces beneath the thawing ice of Cedar Glen’s lake, therapist Libby Rogers recognizes the braided bracelet around his wrist. Eli Mercer was once her client at Cedar Creek, a wilderness program for vulnerable teens... and he had been trying to tell someone something was wrong.
Sheriff Nolan McCann has his own questions. Records are missing. Security footage doesn’t match. Powerful people in Cedar Glen are far more interested in protecting the town’s reputation than reopening old wounds.
Then another boy disappears.
As Libby and Nolan follow separate trails toward the same disturbing truth, the investigation begins to expose the difference between the people who claim to protect children and the ones who actually do. For Libby, the case also stirs memories she has spent years keeping buried, and forces her to confront how far she’ll go to keep the people she loves safe.
In a town built on beautiful views, old money, and carefully guarded secrets, finding the truth may depend on one question:
Who gets missed?
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