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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 34

Lucy dozes as they drive towards Terlingua in the murky end-of-night hours, and Simone wonders what her daughter is thinking.

Has she yet grasped the magnitude of what has happened to them?

Is she dreaming of Damien, whose name Simone doesn’t want to speak, in case it brings to life everything they might have lost? Will they ever see him again?

Simone gulps as she thinks it. She, aged forty-three, can’t think about it, so how can she expect the teenaged brain to? Lucy is still years off full maturity, whatever the world thinks. Simone knows herself that she took until at least thirty to grow up.