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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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CHAPTER 27

It’s four o’clock in the morning and Simone is once again awake, this time doing ninety miles per hour on a freeway while Lucy shivers next to her. She keeps checking she’s really there. That her limbs are solid.

She doesn’t have any shoes on, and something about this is bothering Simone. She rummages around on the back seats, finds Lucy’s Crocs she hastily threw in the car, and hands them to her.

Either they have got away, or the Buick is lagging strategically behind them.

The road is empty up ahead, pierced with white-hot street lights but nothing else. No vehicles anywhere.