Thank you to Net Galley and Storm Publishing for an ARC in exchange for my honest review!!

Zoey finds out her aunt went missing at a summer camp many years ago. In an effort to find out what happens Zoey gets a job at that same camp hoping to uncover exactly what happened to Heather. 

I’m sorry for what I’m about to tell you. I am a book hype woman, it takes A LOT for me to bad mouth a book but this book was just not it. You know that part of the emperor's new groove when Kronk is talking about Kuzco's poison? The poison for Kuzco meant to poison him? That’s this entire book. I could not get around it. You will be reading the same sentence, 5 times in a row, every single chapter. “This is a secret garden. It reminds me of the book secret garden which is about a garden that’s a secret” (not a direct quote but you get it). When they’re not repeating sentences, a character is talking about how everyone at the camp has secrets. I also cannot believe Zoey was in college. She is written as if she is fourteen years old. Also it’s crazy obvious how this book is going to end about 10 minutes into it. The main character's inner dialogue has so many exclamation points. Speaking of dialogue, every conversation in this book is pointless. There are whole sections where it’s like I’m going to ask Mel to go to lunch. Mel do you want to go to lunch. Mel says sure. I say okay. We walk to lunch. And that’s it, the whole section is over. There is also zero suspense. Every conversation is pointless until it’s not. Zoey speculates the whole time until she decides to just ask the person and that person just fully confesses without any push back. Also why did the plot line with Zoey’s boyfriend even exist? I’m so confused by this entire thing. I would be shocked if this doesn’t stay my least favorite of the year. I’m so sorry.

Half the ending was expected and the other half not expected so there was mystery throughout the book. A very good and creepy psychological book.

A camp setting, missing people and weird things happening are a great start to this novel by Sally Royer-Derr. Very suspenseful and kept me on the edge of my seat flipping pages to see happened next. It had the much needed twists and turns that make psychological thrillers so fun. I highly recommend picking this one up.

Thank you Storm Publishing for sending me this eARC. Also thank you to NetGalley and Sally Royer-Derrr.

This book was great. I thoroughly enjoyed it. Really suspenseful and I loved that the chapters went from “before” and “now”. I enjoyed that style. Will definitely more of this authors books!

Well this makes me glad I was never a camp counselor. Sheesh! Zoey decided to take a summer job at the same camp where her aunt mysteriously disappeared decades ago. But she’s in for one heck of a ride when she starts digging. Too many unexplained disappearances have happened here, and she’s going to find out the hard way just what’s been going on. I was completely immersed in this story, and am going to look for more books by this author immediately.

2.5/5 stars. Thank you so much Netgalley and Storm Publishing for this ARC. I loved the concept of a summer camp thriller and thought it was a great premise for the plot of a summer thriller. However, I felt the writing was very repetitive and I found myself struggling to get through some of the chapters. I found the voices of the main characters somewhat juvenile which made it difficult to really engage with the story.

Told across two timeliness with multiple view points, this book told a tale of love and treachery. Set at a kids summer camp, the story became the background for murder and mayhem. Many twists and turns wove the story together with lots of madness and mayhem in between. Make you think twice about going to camp! Very well written and an page turner for sure!

An unsolved case from 35 years ago, send a college students Zoey Montgomery off to become a camp counselor at Camp Medley. With her working at the camp, she is hoping to find out what really happened to her missing Aunt Heather all these years ago. Zoey is also taking this opportunity to find out why her boyfriend Craig suddenly broke up with her. Working at the camp, she figures she will try to have some questions answered about her aunt and also men a broken heart.

Zoey becomes a very good friends with her bunk, mate, Melanie.Zoey finds out that Melanie is part of the Jefferies‘s family that owns the camp. As a matter of fact, her parents run and it’s been in the family for many many years.Zoey find this as an opportunity to help answer the questions about her aunt. When Zoey starts asking questions, many of Melanie’s family becomes very quiet and tries to throw Zoey off the track of finding out what happened to all these years ago. What are they trying to hide? Who can they possibly be protecting? As Zoey keeps investigating, she also wants to find out what really happened between her and Craig. Visiting his family home.Zoey feels that something‘s not right. Craig just wouldn’t leave and break up with her. Something‘s going on there also. As she keeps investigating a few things so happening to her her brakes go, she feels somebody’s following her and as she tells her mom about what’s going on her mother begs her to come back home it’s not safe. Even the woman the grocery store told her she should leave, but this makes. Zoey even more determined to find out the truth. Now she must also keep herself safe in the process. Are all of the Jefferies involved? Did they all know her Aunt Heather? She needs to find answers.

All I can say about this book is WOW! The ending blew my mind. It totally took me on a totally different path. I was on the edge of my seat and I had to finish this book. What a page turner especially towards the end. I did not see it coming.
I loved Zoey’s determination to find out the truth. Then finding out how everyone at the camp figured in on this mystery was brilliant writing. I liked how the author went back and forth with the time periods. Sometimes when this happened in other books, I would have gotten lost and would have to reread what I just read. Not here the author kept us right on point with the whole book.

Thank you NetGalley Storm Publishing forARC. ALSO, THANK YOU TO THE AUTHOR. THIS HAS BEEN ONE OF THE BEST MYSTERY BOOKS. I’VE READ IN A WHILE. FIVE STARS.

I loved this book! It was a fast paced, easy read that kept my attention the whole time. I either loved or hated all the characters. I did see a couple of the twists coming but overall it was a great book!

I see so many reviews loving the plot and the twists and the story...and I'm just not one of them.

I do thank Netgalley and Storm Publishing for a digital ARC of this book, and while this is a genre that is right up my alley, I disliked this book from the first few chapters.

The dialogue is stilted at best, and in places the author could have shown, they chose to tell instead.

The story itself is interesting, but the characters are poorly developed, and certain things are repeated almost verbatim, as though the reader didn't catch it the first time.

I just wanted to finish this book so I could stop reading it.

Zoey Montgomerys aunt Heather went missing from Camp Medley 35 years ago. Zoey gets a job there as a counselor to try to find out what happened to her aunt and get answers for her heartbroken mother.
The setting takes place in a creepy wooded forest and is told in the two perspectives of Heather and Zoey 35 years apart. The book is full of crazy, dysfunctional characters and I couldn’t hardly put it down. Thanks NetGalley and Storm Publishing for this eARC that will be released August 1, 2025!

Where do I start?! This book was amazing! I could not put it down! This book was tragic and just kept me hooked the entire time! It's told in the POV of Zoey (present time) who finds out about her aunt that she didn't even know existed had disappeared at 16. And it's told in the POV of her Aunt that disappeared in 1989.

I found myself holding my breath at times and I just wanted to ignore the world while reading this book, it was so captivating! I can't even express how much I loved this thriller. Usually I will see a twist coming, but the ending was surprising for me. I recommend it to anyone who loves a good thriller and tragic stories!

This releases August 1, 2025

Thank you, Storm Publishing, Netgalley and the author for the advanced copy.

Zoey Montgomery takes a summer job as a camp counselor to find out what happened to her aunt Heather, who vanished from Camp Medley over thirty years earlier.

This book is a mystery with some thrills thrown in. It isn't outright scary, but it has a few creepy moments to keep you interested.

This is a first person narrative that shifts between Zoey and her aunt Heather. I enjoyed the two different perspectives. It was interesting to go back intime to see what happened to Heather while Zoey is actively investigating. The first person made it easy to connect with their thoughts and feelings, however, the characters weren't really developed and didn't have much growth.

The book felt repetitive at times when the characters thought or said the same thing over and over. Aunt Heather couldn't stop thinking about how much she loved her boyfriend and Zoey couldn't stop thinking about her ex-boyfriend. The writing seemed a little juvenile in this sense, but I can see this appealing to the young adult readers.

I thought the twist involving Zoey's ex-boyfriend was a little too much and unnecessary. There was already a mystery to solve at the camp and it just seemed a little weird and unrealistic.

Overall the book was okay, not really for me , but it was a quick and easy read that I think many will enjoy.

Really great read from start to finish. The author does a great job in bringing you into the lives of the characters. Whether you're a longtime fan of thrillers or new to the genre, this book is a must-read. It's the kind of story that lingers in your mind long after the last page is turned. I couldn’t put this one down!

Title No One Saw Her Go
Author: Sally Royce-Derr
Genre: Mystery/Thriller, Women’s Fiction
Publisher: Storm Publishing
Pub Date: August 1, 2025
My Rating: 4,5 Stars
Pages: 248

Story is told now and then
Now 2024 by Zoey and
Then 1989 by Heather.
Zoey Montgomery is a student at Penn State majoring in criminology she had hoped to do an internship this summer as it she will be a senior. Also was planning for her boyfriend Craig Hampton would be doing an internship as well. However things fell apart when he suddenly broke up with her and the internship fell through.
Chloe was able to get a summer job as a camp counselor at Camp Medley. The camp is close to where Craig’s parents’ live and she hoped to talk to them. Additionally she is hopefully of resolving a 30 year family mystery.
In1989 her aunt Heather was sixteen. Both she and her sister Jess – Zoey’s mother lived with their grandmother however when she died they had to move in with their mother and stepfather. When he started to abuse Jess she moved out to live with her boyfriend and soon Heather ran off with boyfriend Dean who had a summer job at Camp Medley. She did not have a job so Dean made arrangement for Heather to live in a tent in the nearby woods. 1Near the end of summer Heather disappeared after being picked at camp by her father.

Hmmm we know it wasn’t her father. We do know of the creepy ghost story about the old man in the woods who kidnaps girls – did he take her?

Zoey wants to know what really happened to her Aunt as well as why Craig broke up with her.

Story kept me wondering as well.

Great story– have to admit I did like the creepy vibe with the camp setting.

I have read only a few other Sally Royce-Derr stories and really enjoyed them!
Additionally enjoyed her “A Letter From the Author” where she tells a bit more about these characters.

Want to thank NetGalley and Storm Publishing for this GREAT eGalley.
Publishing Release Date scheduled for August 1, 2025.

Book was good, family was nuts but enjoyed it and read in one sitting! Would recommend definitely

Received early as part of ARC reviewed for free etc

Thank you Net Galley and Storm Publishing for this ARC.

Enjoyed the premise. A girl returning to the summer camp her aunt attended and went missing from decades earlier to investigate the disappearance was intriguing. Didn’t like the execution.

This was an easy read as far as the writing style is concerned. However, the style seemed more juvenile, like reading a YA book. Pacing was slow. Very repetitive, the same conversations between characters and scenes occurred multiple times. Ending wasn’t anything original. Anti-climactic. No shocking twists.

This thriller focuses on Zoey, a college student, who decides to spend her summer as a counselor at Camp Medley. She’s nursing an unexplained breakup with her boyfriend and stumbles across photos of her mom with another girl that she didn’t know. Mysteriously, Zoey’s aunt disappeared several years ago at the same camp Zoey is spending her summer at. She makes it her mission to figure out what happened to her. The more she digs for info, the crazier and more dangerous things become.

This book is engaging and thrilling. There are a lot of surprise twists towards the end that will have your head spinning and wondering what you just read. They’re not so out of this world crazy that they aren’t believable. I feel that there should have been some trigger warnings with this book. There are some heavy topics such as child abuse/child predators briefly mentioned at the end of the story. There’s not a lot of focus/detail to it, but a heads up is always appreciated. Otherwise, this was an overall good read and gave some creepy vibes that reminded me of stories told around the campfire growing up.

Zoey Montgomery, a criminology student, accepts a summer job at Camp Medley, the same place her aunt Heather vanished from over thirty years ago. Hoping to uncover the truth about her aunt’s disappearance, Zoey begins to investigate the camp’s dark history. As more missing girls and eerie patterns emerge, she starts to question her own sanity. The deeper she digs, the more dangerous her search becomes, leading her to a chilling discovery that changes everything.

This book is all about family secrets and the truths that have been buried and it’s exactly as dark and twisty as that sounds.

I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: I looooove a good missing person thriller. No One Saw Her Go by Sally Royer-Derr delivered all the suspense I crave, but added something even better: a chilling summer camp setting, a decades-old disappearance, and a determined main character who refuses to let the past stay buried. I also appreciated that this was a super quick read and it pulled me in fast and didn’t let go, with short chapters, eerie flashbacks, and just enough twists to keep me flipping pages. If you love thrillers with creepy atmospheres, unreliable characters, and long-buried truths clawing their way to the surface, you’ll want to pick this one up.

I received an advanced copy of this book and am leaving this review voluntarily. No One Saw Her Go publishes on August 1, 2025.

I love summer camp-centric mysteries, but this one was hard to get into. I was already a little on the fence with the setup and the imbalance of showing versus telling. But then there was some graphic and heavy content almost right away, with no trigger warning, that put me off of the story.