10 Hours to Go
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- $12.99
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- $12.99
Publisher Description
From the author of Don't Let in the Cold, a new survival thriller with escalating stakes!
"No slow burn here—this extreme homeward-bound tale thrills."—Kirkus Reviews
Some friends are like wildfires. They can turn against you in an instant.
Lily needs a ride—a fire warning in Oregon has cancelled her train home to California. Her ex-best friend, Natasha, has offered to pick Lily up on her way back from Portland, though they're barely on speaking terms. As it turns out, Natasha's also giving a ride to Elke Azizi, the girl Lily got expelled from their school four years ago. Elke hasn't forgotten, and neither has Natasha.
It's getting tense in the car, and it's not just about the past. There's smoke in the air, and with the wildfires nearby, staying on the road is becoming riskier by the hour. When Natasha and Elke decide to take a detour, Lily hopes it'll get them out of danger. She has no idea, though, what her former friends have planned for her.
But as night comes, the plans change again when it becomes all too clear that leaving the main road was a mistake. Now the three of them are trapped in the woods under a burning sky, with no easy way out. To survive, Lily must depend on Elke and Natasha—but after all that's happened, can she trust them with her life?
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Three former friends become one another's only means of survival in this gripping environmental thriller from Parrack (Don't Let in the Cold).Teenage Lily Williams is wrapping up a visit to Oak Canyon College in Portland, Ore., when her train trip home to California is canceled because of a nearby forest fire. So, Lily's mother organizes for Lily's former best friend Natasha, whom she's barely spoken to since eighth grade, to pick Lily up on her own way home. Lily expects that the drive will be fraught; what she doesn't expect is for Natasha to also pick up Elke, another former friend whom Lily got expelled in middle school. What Lily thinks of as the "road trip from hell" quickly spirals further as fire-related delays lengthen the already 10-hour journey. Hoping to circumvent traffic, Natasha makes a detour. But things go wrong, slowing and then completely stopping their progress as the forest fire spreads down the coast. By gradually unveiling details about the trio's tumultuous eighth grade year throughout the tense present-day narrative, Parrack heats up the suspense, skillfully balancing nail-biting survival sequences with angsty character interactions that will have readers hooked. Lily is white, Natasha has tanned skin, and Elke has light-brown skin. Ages 14–up.