"Let me out! Please!" I shouted, banging on the door. How had I got here? What day was it? I couldn’t remember anything. But I knew I had become the fifth woman to be abducted. 

As my eyes adjust to the darkness, I’m filled with dread. Everything looks just like the others described: a small hole in the door, a mattress, and a narrow window allowing only a small chink of light. The jewellery given to me by my loving husband has gone, and I’m in someone else’s clothes. 

Just days before, I had interviewed the third victim for the local paper. She couldn’t stop shaking. Her story was the same as those before her: an ordinary woman, locked away for 10 days then released with no explanation, and nothing - nothing she could think of - to link her to the others. Throughout the ordeal, her abductor stayed eerily silent. 

I tell myself I’ll be safe in 10 days. But I can’t help thinking of the fourth victim who is still missing. And then, I hear the voice coming through the door. "You said everything would be fine. But it wasn’t, was it?" It is then that I realise. If I am to make it out alive, I need to revisit a dark secret of my own that I have spent a lifetime trying to forget. 

A psychological thriller with a truly brilliant twist, perfect for fans of Teresa Driscoll, T.M. Logan, and C.L. Taylor.