It’s something parents do every morning: Rachel Klein drops her daughter at the bus stop and heads into her day. But a cell phone call from an unknown number changes everything: it’s a woman on the line, informing her that she has Kylie bound and gagged in her back seat, and the only way Rachel will see her again is to follow her instructions exactly: pay a ransom, and find another child to abduct. This is no ordinary kidnapping: the caller is a mother herself, whose son has been taken, and if Rachel doesn’t do as she’s told, the boy will die. “You are not the first. And you will certainly not be the last.” Rachel is now part of The Chain… Read more.
Trigger & Content Warnings
- Military Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)
- Substance addiction
- Drug abuse & use, on-page
- Protagonist with cancer
- Death and resuscitation of a child for anaphylactic shock
- Murder
- Gun violence & threats of gun violence
- Kidnapping & captivity of children, on-page (theme)
- Disappearance of a daughter
- Stalking
- Physical assault with a wrench and physical assault of a child
- Animal hunting
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