Nine-year-old Rachel Fox has the face of an angel, a heart-stopping luminosity that strikes all who meets her. Her single mother, Celia, working at a video store by day and a piano bar by night, is not always around to shield her daughter from the attention - both benign and sinister - her beauty draws. From modelling agencies, for example, or from Ron, a small-appliance repairman who, having seen Rachel once, is driven to see her again and again. When a summer blackout pluges the city into darkness and confusion, Rachel is taken from her home. A full-scale search begins, but days pass with no clues, only a phone calls Celia receives from a woman whose voice she has heard before but cannot place. As Celia fights her terror, and Rachel starts to trust in her abductor's kindness, the only other person who knows where the little girl is wavers between loyalty to the captor and saving the child. Will Rachel be found before her abductor's urge to protect and cherish turns to something altogether less inocent?
Helpless -
Barbara Gowdy
Harper Collins
1980
306 páginas
10h 12m
ISBN-10: 0002008467
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