They Took Her Daughter. Now She'll Break Every Rule to Get Her Back.

From the Sunday Times bestselling author of Famous Last Words and Wrong Place Wrong Time comes an unmissable new thriller - available for pre-order now!

'Unputdownable' FREIDA MCFADDEN
'The best of the best' LISA JEWELL
'Masterful' ANDREA MARA
'Tense, twisty, and an emotional gut punch' KARIN SLAUGHTER
'Absolutely superb' CLAIRE DOUGLAS
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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 the other end issues instructions: Don't tell the police. Come to this location. Be prepared to do a deal...

There is nothing Simone wouldn't do to save her daughter. Hide the truth. Commit a terrible crime. Become a wanted woman.

But there's one thing Simone hasn't considered.

What if this is just what the kidnappers want?


'As moving as it is gripping' SOPHIE HANNAH
'Utterly original' SHARI LAPENA
'Astoundingly brilliant' LUCY CLARKE
'You'll gasp, you'll cry, you'll never forget this story' HOLLY SEDDON
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PRAISE FOR GILLIAN MCALLISTER

'A first-class thriller' SUNDAY TIMES

'A writer at the top of her game' CLAIRE DOUGLAS

'McAllister is an expert in taut, twisty thrillers' i PAPER

'A brilliant, brilliant book' JODI PICOULT

'What an incredible, gripping, thrilling read' LISA JEWELL

'Utterly effing magnificent. I could NOT put it down!' MARIAN KEYES

'I am totally in awe. This is one story I will not forget' HEIDI PERKS

'This is bravura novel-writing' IAN RANKIN

Format Häftad Omfång 416 sidor Språk Engelska Förlag Penguin Books Ltd. Utgivningsdatum 2026-04-09 ISBN 9780241648063