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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