'Call your mother.''What do I say?''Say goodbye.'"
In the Devonshire countryside, a masked stranger is preying on young women - luring them into his car, taking them to a place they can never be found, and then ordering them to call home.

At first he doesn't kill. His motive for terrifying the women seems unclear.

But every killer has to start somewhere, and soon enough he will get a taste for something even more sinister.

Living with her parents in the dank beach community of Limeburn, ten-year-old Ruby Trick has her own fears. Bullies on the school bus, the forest crowding her house into the sea, and the threat of divorce. Helping her Daddy to catch the killer might be the key to keeping him close. As long as the killer doesn't catch her first . . . 
She's about to come of age in the most terrifying way possible . . .