Despite repeated warnings to doctors at the mental health care facility where their special-needs daughter was being kept, Bob and Patty Begin received the late-night phone call they dreaded most: Cecilia had escaped and no one knew where she was. Arrogance and negligence in the medical community and Massachusetts' lack of a systematic process for locating runaways meant that Bob and Patty would have to organize and head the desperate search by themselves.
Then She Ran is the story of two parents trying to save their daughter - from her illness, from her doctors, and from frigid nights outside in the dead of winter. With the help of their community and the local media outlets, Bob and Patty followed up on every lead, all the while praying for a happy outcome. But when the ending came, it was one nobody ever expected.