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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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Damien does that thing he sometimes does where he cups the back of Simone’s head in his huge palm.

Eventually, he seems to come to some decision, there on the deck as the boat swarms with police sent to capture them, to take their family and tear them apart. ‘Simone,’ he says. His voice is hot against the nape of her neck. It is warm and intimate in contrast to the cold and chilled sea air.

‘What?’ she says, her voice full of trepidation.

He takes a breath, exhales slowly, this time through his nose. It’s cooler, dizzying against her neck. He’s done it thousands of times, her husband, but never like this. Their intimacy now feels awful, loaded, dangerous.