The Lost: A Novel – An Expanded Fantasy Thriller of Magic Realism and Suspense

Name: The Lost: A Novel – An Expanded Fantasy Thriller of Magic Realism and Suspense
Price: 15.73 USD
Availability: InStock
Rating: 4.5 (308 reviews)
Author: Sarah Beth Durst

by Sarah Beth Durst

4.5

Published Nov 11, 2025

About this book

From Sarah Beth Durst, the New York Times bestselling author of The Spellshop and The Enchanted Greenhouse, comes a fully updated and expanded edition of The Lost, with a brand-new ending. Against the backdrop of a desolate and mystical town, this arresting, fantastical novel explores one woman’s impossible journey—and her quest to find her fate. "A slow-brewing, increasingly exciting, and deeply provocative fantasy world." —Booklist Lost your way? Your dreams? Yourself? Welcome to Lost. It was supposed to be a small escape. A few hours' driving before turning around and heading home. But once you arrive in Lost…well, it's a place you really can't leave. Not until you're Found. Only the Missing Man can send you home. And he took one look at Lauren Chase and disappeared. So Lauren is now trapped in the town where all lost things go—luggage, keys, dreams, lives—where nothing is permanent, where the locals go feral and where the only people who don't want to kill her are a handsome wild man called the Finder and a knife-wielding six-year-old girl. The only road out of town is engulfed in an impassable dust storm, and escape is impossible… Until Lauren decides nothing—and no one—is going to keep her here anymore.

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What readers are saying

Littleredreadinghood

Odd and lovely.

"Every time I move, I always lose something important to me. An antique doll given by my great grandmother. Or a family genealogy that goes back 400 years, or a favorite out of print book. And now I know where they went. Stick with it through the first few chapters. You will be well rewarded by this fascinating and unique book. A rare five stars for an amazing book that is thoughtful and beautifully written. ["

May 9, 2026 Verified Purchase

beck61

A rough start but then oh!!

"I had planned a pan. The attempts at cute humor were killing me, and the story, but I stuck with it, and it was worth it. A young woman, who doesn't seem to have much of a life that doesn't include her terminally ill mother and her job, takes a wrong turn on purpose, in order to escape hearing bad news, something, it seems, she does often. Only this time, she ends up lost in a dust storm, and ends up in Lost, a city of lost things and people. The place where your sock mates and the eighth spoon from your flatware set go to live. There are people living there, some of whom are trying to discover how they got there, and the rest trying to leave. Lauren, the woman's name is, grudgingly settles for life in a dangerous town, waiting for the Missing Man to come, the dapper gentleman who can help you find what you lost and send you back home. Only, for some reason, that I never found out, he runs away from her, angering the residents left behind. She meets a beautiful man, and a tough little girl, who show her how to hide, hunt, and gradually settle in, discovering a little more about herself as time goes by. In spite of her urgency to get back to be by her mother's side, they form a little family, and their personalities are so unique that you have to stick around to see what happens. That Lauren becomes immune to the lack of untouched food, opened bottles of shampoo, cheeseburgers with the bitten part sliced off and served on the clean part of a paper plate she found, is odd and sensitive at the same time. It's really a fun time, and while it's obviously fantasy, we all know how it feels to want to get home, wherever that turns out to be. I can't wait for book 2. ["

March 18, 2020 Verified Purchase