Summary

The disappearances of Marta Gregorski, Marta's mother, and Rory McCombers are not recognized as being linked by the authorities. In both cases, they got into a vehicle, expecting to be picked up. Also, in both cases the real car and driver are later found incapacitated. Neither driver is given a blood test, so the Sevoflurane in their systems is unnoticed. None of these people are ever seen again.

Vic starts high school. When she gets home one afternoon, Chris McQueen is gone. He has left his wife. Vic is stunned when her mother admits that her father had fooled around in the past and she had never asked him to choose. Vic decides she will ride to her father, wherever he is, and insist that if he loves her, he should find room for her in his new life. She rides to the...