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Author: Gillian McAllister Listening Length: 11h 8m

A road trip across America with her teenage daughter was meant to be much-needed bonding time for Simone before Lucy leaves home for university. But on the first night of their stay, in a cabin deep in the Texan desert, Simone wakes to find Lucy missing and a mobile phone in her place. The phone rings and the voice on ...

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The night air is cooling quickly now, like somebody blowing on her hairline. The car is slow-creeping, some sort of electric kind, as quiet as a cat.

It is a few hundred yards away, then one hundred, then fifty. The windows are blacked-out, no number plates. Simone walks on jelly legs around to the boot of the car and demonstrably gets out the sports bag.

The car swings into the lay-by and stops, its engine still running.

A handful of seconds tick by, scattering like stray sand from an hourglass. Simone tilts her head, assessing the car and waiting quietly, obediently. She’s come too far to make a mistake now.

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