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On the day she was abducted, Annie O’Sullivan, a 32-year-old Realtor, had three goals: sell a house, forget about a recent argument with her mother, and be on time for dinner with her ever-patient boyfriend. The open house is slow, but when her last visitor pulls up in a van as she’s about to leave, Annie thinks it just might be her lucky day after all.

Life has never been easy for the three Campbell sisters. Jess, Courtney, and Dani live on a remote ranch in Western Canada where they work hard and try to stay out of the way of their father's fists. One night a fight gets out of hand, and the sisters are forced to go on the run, only to get caught in an even worse nightmare when their truck breaks down in a small town. Events spiral out of control, and a chance encounter with the wrong people leaves them in a horrific and desperate situation.

Eleven years ago, Lindsey Nash escaped into the night with her young daughter and left an abusive relationship. Her ex-husband, Andrew, was sent to jail and Lindsey started over with a new life. Now, Lindsey is older and wiser, with her own business and a teenage daughter who needs her more than ever. When Andrew is finally released from prison, Lindsey believes she has cut all ties and left the past behind her. But she gets the sense that someone is watching her, tracking her every move.

All her life, Sara Gallagher has wondered about her birth parents. As an adopted child with two sisters who were born naturally to her parents, Sara did not have an ideal home life. The question of why she was given up for adoption has always haunted her. Finally, she is ready to take steps and to find closure. But some questions are better left unanswered.

In the lockdown ward of a psychiatric hospital, Dr. Nadine Lavoie is in her element. She has the tools to help people, and she has the desire: Healing broken families is what she lives for. But Nadine doesn’t want to look too closely at her own past because there are whole chunks of her life that are black holes. It takes all her willpower to tamp down her recurrent claustrophobia, and her daughter, Lisa, is a runaway who has been on the streets for seven years. When a distraught woman, Heather Simeon, is brought into the Psychiatric Intensive Care Unit after a suicide attempt, Nadine gently coaxes her story out of her - and learns of some troubling parallels to her own life.

The Cold Creek Highway stretches close to five hundred miles through British Columbia’s rugged wilderness to the west coast. Isolated and vast, it has become a prime hunting ground for predators. For decades, young women traveling the road have gone missing. Motorists and hitchhikers, those passing through or living in one of the small towns scattered along the region, have fallen prey time and again. And no killer or abductor who has stalked the highway has ever been brought to justice.

Toni Murphy was eighteen when she and her boyfriend, Ryan, were wrongly convicted of the murder of her younger sister. Now she is thirty-four and back in her hometown, working every day to forge and adjust to a new life on the outside. She's doing everything in her power to avoid violating her parole and going back to prison. But nothing is making that easy – not Ryan, who is convinced he can figure out the truth; not her mother, who clearly doubts Toni's innocence; and certainly not the group of women who made Toni's life miserable in high school.

Als die rebellische Toni 18 Jahre alt ist, wird ihre jüngere Schwester Nicole am See ermordet. Man verurteilt Toni und ihren Freund Ryan dafür. Jahre später wird Toni auf Bewährung entlassen. Sie weiß nicht, was in jener Nacht geschehen ist. Sie weiß nur, dass der wahre Mörder noch nicht gefunden ist. Doch Toni will nur eins: Die Vergangenheit hinter sich lassen und ein neues Leben beginnen. Aber was damals geschah, ist noch lange nicht vorbei, und nicht nur Tonis Bewährung steht auf dem Spiel.

Eleven years ago Lindsey Nash escaped into the night with her young daughter and left an abusive relationship. Her ex-husband, Andrew, was sent to jail, and Lindsey started over with a new life. Now Lindsey is older and wiser, with her own business and a teenage daughter who needs her more than ever. When Andrew is finally released from prison, Lindsey believes she has cut all ties and left the past behind her. But she gets the sense that someone is watching her, tracking her every move.

Tief und kalt ist der Ozean an der kanadischen Westküste, weit und rau das Land. Hier lebt Lindsey mit ihrer 17-jährigen Tochter Sophie. Vor elf Jahren ist sie in letzter Minute einem Albtraum entkommen, dem Leben mit ihrem kontrollsüchtigen und gewalttätigen Ehemann Andrew. Lindsey ist es gelungen, alle Spuren zu verwischen, ihre Vergangenheit hinter sich zu lassen und für sich und Sophie ein neues Leben aufzubauen. Als Andrew aus dem Gefängnis entlassen wird, kommt auch die Angst zurück. Erneut fühlt sich Lindsey bedroht.

Kurz vor ihrer Hochzeit erfährt die adoptierte Sara etwas Unfassbares: Ihr leiblicher Vater ist ein berüchtigter Serienkiller...

The Cold Creek Highway stretches for 500 miles through rugged wilderness. For decades, young women travelling the road have gone missing, falling prey to a killer who has never been brought to justice. Hailey McBride calls Cold Creek home. A teenage orphan, Hailey lives with her aunt and uncle, the most feared police officer in town, who uses his badge to control her. Desperate to escape, she vanishes into the mountains, never anticipating that everyone will think she's been taken by the murderer.

Die Schwestern Jess, Courtney und Dani sind 14, 16 und 17 Jahre alt und leben auf einer rauen Farm in Kanada. Als ein Streit mit ihrem gewalttätigen Vater aus dem Ruder läuft, müssen sie fliehen. Doch ihr Pick-up bleibt in einem abgelegenen Dorf liegen, und bald finden sie sich in einem furchtbaren Albtraum wieder. 18 Jahre später versuchen die drei noch immer, die Geschehnisse des Sommers von damals zu vergessen.

Manche Wälder täuschen dich. Manche Pfade verraten dich. Manche Wege zerstören dich. Top-Spannung made in Kanada: Der große neue Thriller der internationalen Bestseller-Autorin Chevy Stevens. Seit Jahren verschwinden junge Frauen vom einsamen Cold Creek Highway im Nordwesten von Kanada. Das letzte Opfer ist noch nicht lange tot, der Mörder wurde nie gefunden. Nun geraten zwei gegensätzliche Frauen in sein Visier: Die toughe Hailey kennt die Wälder um Cold Creek wie ihre Westentasche. Als sie ein dunkles Geheimnis entdeckt, trifft sie eine unheilvolle Entscheidung.