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The prequel to the terrifying novella, Killers, the original version of Serial, still available as a free ebook, was a 7500 word horror short story done as an experiment.­Remember the twin golden rules of hitchhiking?­#1: Don't go hitchhiking, because the driver who picks you up could be certifiably crazy.­#2: Don't pick up hitchhikers, because the traveler you pick up could be certifiably crazy.­So what if, on some dark, isolated road, Crazy #1 offered a ride to Crazy #2?­When Blake Crouch (Desert Place, Locked Doors) and Jack Kilborn (Trapped, Endurance), face-­off, the result is Serial, a terrifying tale of hitchhiking gone terribly wrong. Like a deeply twisted version of an a€?After School Special,­" Serial is the single most persuasive public service announcement on the hazards of free car rides.­Beyond a thrilling piece of horrifying suspense, Serial is also a groundbreaking experiment in literary collaboration. Kilborn wrote the first part. 

For Will Innis and his daughter, Devlin, the loss was catastrophic. Every day for the past five years, they wonder where she is, if she is—Will’s wife, Devlin’s mother—because Rachael Innis vanished one night during an electrical storm on a lonely desert highway, and suspected of her death, Will took his daughter and fled. Now, Will and Devlin live under different names in another town, having carved out a new life for themselves as they struggle to maintain some semblance of a family. When one night, a beautiful, hard-edged FBI agent appears on their doorstep, they fear the worst, but she hasn’t come to arrest Will. “I know you’re innocent,” she tells him, “because Rachael wasn’t the first…or the last.” Desperate for answers, Will and Devlin embark on a terrifying journey that spans four thousand miles from the desert southwest to the wilds of Alaska, heading unaware into the heart of a nightmare, because the truth is infinitely worse than they ever imagined.