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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 50 The Kidnapper

The Kidnapper

There are a handful of people around, and I scan each face hurriedly as they move in and out of the buildings.

A group of men in walking gear, one with binoculars (how useful they might be). A couple emerging from the first bar, carrying takeout drinks in plastic cups with straws. A man in a cowboy hat with a tiny dog that shouldn’t be out in this heat.

I stand under the shade of an awning, across the street from them, just watching. Watching for anybody young and female, thinking that she has no idea that I’m here, that she’s vulnerable to me. I’m already at an advantage.