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William Langdon looks as though he has stepped out of another era, the kind of man preserved in the soft grain of old cinema. Impeccably dressed, composed to the point of effortless perfection. His smile is pearly white, his voice is as smooth as velvet, and his presence refined enough to make strangers lower their guard without ever quite knowing why.
Maple Bennett knows better than to accept a ride from a stranger, especially on a deserted road, in the middle of a raging storm, far enough out from the nearest town that the shape of it feels like a memory. And yet, when Will pulls up beside her lonely bus stop, rain streaking his windshield, and concern in his gaze, she already knows she's doomed.
Refusing him should have been simple enough, but simple is for kind men. Normal men.
By the time Maple recognizes the true breadth of what she is dealing with, the road has already disappeared behind her, the storm has closed in, and the locked doors of his car have become something far more final than a mere death sentence.