However, a snow storm interrupts her plans, and leaves her stranded at a rest stop. Darby wants to go home from college to spend one last Christmas with her mother and tell her that she’s sorry for the things she said on their last call, so she sets out on a journey to get to her family. The last phone call Darby had with her mother didn’t end on good terms, and now her mother has been diagnosed with terminal cancer. They argue, say things they don’t mean, and don’t spend much time together.

“The easiest lies to tell are the true ones.”ĭarby doesn’t have a good relationship with her mother. It was such an amazing thrill ride from the very beginning through to the last page (which had an ending that I did not see coming and absolutely loved). I hadn’t heard of No Exit before, and it sounded really, really good, so I decided to take a chance on it and pick it, and once I started reading, I couldn’t put this book down. I decided to get this as one of my Book of the Month club add-ons, though, because I want to start reading books that are a little bit out of my usual fare, and I thought this might be a good place to start, since it bridges the gap a bit (thrillers of YA and general thrillers). I have been waiting for one of these for a while – it’s been so long since I’ve read such an amazing thriller like this! While I normally love thrillers, I don’t usually read ones that aren’t young adult as much as I should. Full of terrifying twists and hairpin turns, No Exit will have you on the edge of your seat and leave you breathless. With exquisitely controlled pacing, Taylor Adams diabolically ratchets up the tension with every page. 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. Synopsis A brilliant, edgy thriller about four strangers, a blizzard, a kidnapped child, and a determined young woman desperate to unmask and outwit a vicious psychopath.Ī kidnapped little girl locked in a stranger’s van.

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