Invisible Girl: A Novel

Cate reads about another attack at dusk and that the perpetrator wore a balaclava, like all the other attacks. Even though she hates her thought process, she remembers how Josh came home at dusk on the day of the sexual assault. Cate goes into Josh’s room and finds a messenger bag stuffed behind other clothes. Cate takes black athletic clothing out of the messenger bag, which she thinks belong to Roan, and a balaclava.

Detective Currie interviews Owen about Saffyre’s blood on his wall, saying she believes the unifying thread through all the incidents of sexual assault is Owen’s drunkenness. She thinks that Owen does things when he is drunk that he would not normally do sober.

Cate looks up the dates and times of all the sexual assaults in the area and writes them down, along with the details of the attacks. Then, she compares them to her calendar, and she sees that either Roan or Josh could have attacked the women during those times. Cate feels sick to her stomach. She gets coffee with Elona and asks about Tilly. Elona says that Tilly has not wanted to leave the house since she claimed that she was attacked. Cate asks Elona to talk to Tilly because she thinks that she was assaulted but retracted her statement for an unknown reason.