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Girl, Stolen Books in Order

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See the Girl, Stolen series by April Henry in order, with short summaries, series background, and a quick guide to Cheyenne's story.

Last updated: July 1, 2026

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Girl, Stolen books in publication order

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1

Girl, Stolen

by April Henry

2010

Blind teen Cheyenne Wilder is asleep in the back of a car when a thief steals it. What starts as an accident becomes a kidnapping, and Cheyenne has to outthink the people holding her.

2

Count All Her Bones

by April Henry

2017

Months after surviving her kidnapping, Cheyenne is preparing to testify against Roy Sawyer. Then a secret meeting with Griffin goes wrong, and she is taken again, this time by people who want her dead.

Girl, Stolen books in chronological order

  1. Book cover for "Girl, Stolen"

    Girl, Stolen

    by April Henry

    2010Girl, Stolen, Book 1
  2. Book cover for "Count All Her Bones"

    Count All Her Bones

    by April Henry

    2017Girl, Stolen, Book 2

Series background & context

The Girl, Stolen books are a tight, high-stakes thriller series built around Cheyenne Wilder, a blind teenager who gets pulled into danger by what should have been a tiny everyday mistake. She is asleep in the back of a car when a teenage thief, Griffin Sawyer, steals the vehicle without realizing anyone is inside. What starts as an accident turns into something much worse when Griffin's father realizes who Cheyenne is and decides she is worth money.

That opening tells you a lot about the series. These books move fast, but the suspense is not only about escape. It is also about power, fear, and who gets underestimated. Cheyenne's blindness matters to the story, but Henry does not write her as helpless. She is observant, practical, angry when she needs to be, and constantly working out what she can still control when almost everything has been taken from her.

Griffin is just as important to the series as a source of tension. He is the one who steals the car, but he is also a teenager trapped inside a brutal family system. That gives the first book, Girl, Stolen, its extra pull. The story is not simply Cheyenne versus faceless captors. It is also about what happens when one frightened kid realizes another kid's life has been dropped into his hands.

Nothing about these books is comfortable.

The second novel, Count All Her Bones, picks up after the first ordeal rather than pretending life has snapped back into place. Roy Sawyer is awaiting trial. Cheyenne and Griffin reconnect as they prepare to testify. Then the danger surges back, and Cheyenne is kidnapped again. This time the stakes are not ransom. This time someone wants the witnesses gone. The sequel keeps the survival pressure of the first book, but it also adds the aftermath of trauma, the difficulty of trust, and Cheyenne's new determination to fight back physically as well as mentally.

The setting matters because isolation matters. Roads, houses, woods, and stretches of country that feel far from help all feed the tension. Henry is very good at making practical obstacles feel terrifying. Locked doors, bad weather, missing phones, and the simple fact of being in the wrong place at the wrong time can do a lot of work here.

If you like kidnapping and survival thrillers that stay close to character, this series is a strong pick. Read Girl, Stolen first, then move to Count All Her Bones. Together they tell one larger story about endurance, loyalty, and what it takes to keep going after fear has already changed you.

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