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The Long Ride Home

(2026)
(Book 11 in the Jake Stellar series)
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After a quiet week in Key West, Jake and his wife Bree are finally headed home. But somewhere along a lonely stretch of highway in Georgia, a violent thunderstorm turns their easy drive into a dangerous detour. Forced off the main road and onto a dark country backroad, they spot a figure in the rain—a young woman walking alone, clutching a baby to her chest.

Stranded and grateful for the help, the young woman, Melody Tanger, invites Jake and Bree to spend the night at the old farmhouse where she lives alone with her child. The place is large, quiet … and filled with the kind of silence that makes you wonder what stories its walls could tell.

Late that night, Melody shares a secret she has carried for eight years.

When she was sixteen, she was abducted by a stranger. Against all odds, he let her go unharmed. The case was never solved, because Melody never told anyone the truth about what happened during those missing hours.

Because she couldn't.

What Melody reveals to Jake is something darker than a simple crime … a truth that could destroy lives and unravel the past.


Genre: Mystery



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