Denver: McAdam / Cage, (2004). First edition - The author's highly praised second novel - The seemingly perfect lives of the affluent Winters family in suburban New York begin to unravel when their five-year-old daughter, Ellie, mysteriously vanishes. 15 years later, Caroline, Ellie's older sister, working as a cocktail waitress in New Orleans, sees a photograph in People magazine, and convinced it is her sister, now grown, embarks for a search for her - through the New Mexico desert, the Colorado mountains, Montana and more. Andrew Sean Greer commented that Ward "shines her with the same brilliance and humor she showed in her first novel." 291 pp.