Hunting Adeline

Content Warning: This section of the guide includes discussion of sexual violence and/or harassment, physical abuse, child abuse, graphic violence, death, rape, death, suicidal ideation, and sexual content.

Having been kidnapped by human traffickers at the conclusion of Haunting Adeline, Adeline wakes up in a van to find herself blindfolded and bound, miles away from the protection of Zade, her abusive stalker-turned-lover, with whom she is now in a consensual relationship. She remembers driving to her friend Daya’s place, getting run off the road, and being dragged out of her car. 

In the front seat, two men discuss the prospect of selling Adeline; they believe that they will get a good price because she is a “diamond” and because people who hate Zade will want to buy her. Adeline learns that one captor’s name is Rio. She worries that Daya, her best friend, was also kidnapped. The men say that they kidnapped Adeline for the Society, a ritualistic group of elite political figures who traffic and abuse women and children. (Zade’s underground organization, Z, is dedicated to fighting against the Society. In the previous novel, Zade infiltrated the Society and disrupted one of their rituals, after which Adeline was kidnapped by someone wanting to get revenge on Zade for a murder that he previously committed.