This might make a great adrenaline-rush Jason Bourne-ish type of movie, but I've read more believable and intense suspense/thrillers. Ending: A shocking, surprising, intense and action-packed ending that left me feeling totally wowed.

They seem amiable enough, then seemingly out of nowhere, a fourth individual arrives who instantly puts her on edge. I even joined in on this cat and mouse game by yelling at the characters and rooting here for our young brave heroine who gives it her all to outwit a psychopath.With road closures, no cellphone reception, and dwindling battery life there is literally no exit until dawn. If there was ever a time I'm glad I'm not currently driving through the perils of winter in my hometown of Buffalo, it's now!

Adams has taken one of the "in between" places in our modern culture and transformed it into something that everyone who's been on a road trip will instantly recognize. Our main character Darby gets stuck at a rest stop in Colorado on the way to visit her family, and she meets four strangers at a rest stop, and in the parking lot she sees a child locked in a cage with duct tape over her mouth in the back of a van. I missed it because *book slump* but the reception of this book was too fantastic for me to pass up reading it.She immediately begins thinking through those in the rest stop, who could have kidnapped this girl and why, and how she is going to save her. Darby is a college student and she just got word that her mom, who she hasn't always gotten along the best with, is sick with cancer.

Despite the perfect plot the author totally lost the opportunity in writing a convincing gripping thriller.

If the author is writing an investigative type or a crime thriller, he should be careful not to include the luck factor and divine interventions favoring the protagonist (investigative officer), more than once. The fun, edge-of-your-seat, kind of way; not the crawl under a blanket and not leave my house for a week, kind of way. The time that tall ghost —a gray-haired woman with a floral skirt and double-jointed knees, both bending backward like a dog's hind legs —came lurching through Darby's bedroom window, half-floating and half-striding, weightless and ethereal, like a creature underwater? It's quite simple, actually: if you start reading this book, there's no way you're going to want to put it down. I stayed up reading late (which I honestly don't do very often) and even after staying up late I was hyped up on what was going to happen.

There's violence, cussing, abuse (both child and adult), guns and more and it is like that throughout the whole novel.While walking among the cars, she notices a little girl locked in a dog cage in the back of a work van. Some of the twists, though, made me roll my eyes a little, but that's when the book felt a bit like a summer blockbuster, where you don't question how long the battle will continue until resolution is achieved, because nothing ever goes smoothly.