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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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Galveston Port looms into view. It took so long, almost all their cash now gone, the rest to be spent on the identities and the cruise ship tickets they reserved, but it’s worth it because it kept the number of people who saw them low.

They didn’t need to fly, or go through a train station terminal. And here they are.

The port is industrial, huge ships everywhere, slow-moving triangles that throw around light and shade as they block the sun with their mass.

A port is a port, and Simone could almost pretend she’s in England; gone is the sandstone of the desert, replaced with blue and white and grey.