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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 54

‘You can buy an identity,’ Damien says simply. He places his glass down on the decking at his bare feet, then darts a cautious glance at the bathroom window and at the horizon beyond them.

‘An identity,’ Simone says, staring at the ring of condensation that begins to form around the glass in the heat.

‘A false identity. And then settle somewhere. Somewhere people aren’t looking.’

The world around them seems to stop, for just a moment, for Simone and Damien only. The wind lets up, the ice cubes in his glass stop moving. The desert holds its breath.