In Stephen King’s novel The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon, the missing girl’s first name is Trisha.
Trisha McFarland becomes lost in the woods of western Maine after leaving a hiking trail during a family outing. She carries a portable radio and listens to baseball broadcasts featuring her favorite player, Boston Red Sox relief pitcher Tom Gordon.
As Trisha struggles to survive, her imagination, fear, exhaustion, and the wilderness shape her experience. She believes that a supernatural presence may be following her, although the novel keeps the boundary between psychological terror and external danger uncertain.
The title refers to Trisha’s admiration for Tom Gordon, not to a character named Gordon who accompanies her. Trisha is alone for most of the story, relying on the radio, her memory, and her survival skills.