And she knows she's in a dire situation but then oops she left her phone in the bathroom or oops she wasn't looking where the hell she was going. Like she would try to do something secretive and then oops she left glaring evidence of where she'd been out in the open. I got to the stage where I was like please, girl, screw your head on right. I mean, it's obvious the whole point of it is so the author can continuously bring up the ever-dwindling charge on Darby's phone.Īnd then it was one reckless decision and major 'oops' after another. This happens so many times in this book! From the very beginning when we learn that Darby is out driving in a blizzard and has left her charger a hundred miles back in her dorm room. I hate it in books and movies when a character almost gets away but then discovers they have done something so unbelievably dumb that, uh oh, they're captured again. It's this: all the twists and turns rely on characters making stupid mistakes. But this book just contains a major pet peeve of mine, and it comes up not once but several times over the course of the novel. Why is a child locked in the back of a van? Why is she in a cage? What does the culprit plan to do with her? And, most importantly, who is it? And there she sees the hand of a young girl reaching through the bars of a cage. She goes outside in a failed attempt to get a signal and happens to glance in the back of a parked van. Darby Thorne is caught in the middle of a blizzard in the Colorado mountains, forced to take shelter at a rest stop with four other people, with no cell reception or any way out until the storm is over. Trapped in an increasingly dangerous situation, with a child’s life and her own on the line, Darby must find a way to break the girl out of the van and escape. One of her fellow travelers is a kidnapper. There is no cell phone reception, no telephone, and no way out.

Who is the child? Why has she been taken? And how can Darby save her? In the back of the van parked next to her car, a little girl is locked in an animal crate. Inside are some vending machines, a coffee maker, and four complete strangers.ĭesperate to find a signal to call home, Darby goes back out into the storm.

With the roads impassable, she’s forced to wait out the storm at a remote highway rest stop. On her way to Utah to see her dying mother, college student Darby Thorne gets caught in a fierce blizzard in the mountains of Colorado. A thriller about four strangers, a blizzard, a kidnapped child, and a determined young woman desperate to unmask and outwit a vicious psychopathĪ kidnapped little girl locked in a stranger’s van.

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