The ?: QUESTION Series

WHO begins with the abrupt disappearance of Kaia Ingram, the inaugural member of Philadelphia’s August Girls—a puzzling group of young ladies that have gone missing near the end of each subsequent summer. As the fifth anniversary looms, Maura Sterling is waking up and reveling in her newfound empty nest now that her twins, Soleil and Selene, have moved to the city to start their journalism careers after graduating college. Just as Maura musters the strength to get prepared for a busy day ahead, there is a startling and unexpected knock

Ten years ago, Ruby Yepez’s world was shattered when her daughter, Gracie, disappeared without a trace. After a decade of the August Girls media frenzy, dead-end leads, and sleepless nights, the public has finally moved on—and so, painfully, Ruby has, too. But just as the noise fades, a new chaos arrives at her door when her estranged older daughter, Franki—strung out and desperate—reappears, only to vanish once more and leave behind her teenage son, Teddy. Determined not to fail another child, Ruby pours herself into giving Teddy the safety and love he’s never known. For a time, it works.

As another summer rolls around, Lainey Moore finds herself thinking back to a time when her life was completely turned upside down. That unimaginable string of events that brought her into the center of the hubbub surrounding those August Girls, leaving her no longer carefree. Naïve. Normal. No, despite how hard she tries to suppress what happened all those years ago, the warm, sticky air always brings her back to that chaos. That anxiety. That Girl.