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Caller Unknown

by Gillian McAllister Publisher: WILLIAM MORROW

Book Club Pick Critically Recognized

A Texas kidnapping ordeal tests a mother’s limits

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  • Book club selection

    Read with Jenna Book Club Pick

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  • Critical praise

    Praise from Freida McFadden

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AlbakiReads Editorial

A Texas kidnapping ordeal tests a mother’s limits

A planned mother-daughter trip to Texas becomes a desperate search when Lucy disappears from the cabin where she and Simone are staying. A ransom call forbids Simone from contacting the police, but the demand is not for money: the kidnapper asks her to do something that places her on the wrong side of the law. The setup turns the rescue into a conflict between protecting her daughter and deciding what she is willing to do. As events unfold across remote Texas towns and desert landscapes, the novel connects its suspense plot to questions of motherhood, courage, and moral responsibility.

Good fit for readers who enjoy

  • Readers seeking a suspense novel built around a parent’s attempt to rescue a missing child.
  • Readers interested in crime-driven dilemmas involving family loyalty and moral choices.
  • Readers who enjoy thrillers set in small towns and remote desert landscapes.

Themes

Motherhood and family bondsMoral responsibilityKidnapping and rescueCourage under pressure

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Book overview

A READ WITH JENNA BOOK CLUB PICK AS FEATURED ON TODAY - "An unputdownable adventure that was both heartwarming and thrilling! Everything I've come to expect from Gillian McAllister!" --Freida McFadden, #1 New York Times Bestselling Author

How far would you go to rescue your child? A mother races against the clock--and finds herself on the wrong side of the law--in a desperate fight to save her teenage daughter in this pulse-pounding thriller from the author of Reese's Book Club Pick and New York Times bestseller Wrong Place Wrong Time.

Your last words to your teenage daughter were, "Sleep well." By the next morning, she has vanished.

Her bed not slept in, an unfamiliar phone in her place. Before you have time to catch your breath, it rings.

CALLER UNKNOWN

Someone has taken your daughter. They don't tell you where. They don't tell you why.

Only that you must do what they say to ever see her again. Do not contact the police. If you do, they will kill her. You and your husband disagree about what to do next.

You have a choice: do you risk contacting the authorities anyway?

Or, do you take the law - and your daughter's life - into your own hands?

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