John Manuel

No Sign John Manuel

One evening, Amanda left work as usual. Then she disappeared. No one saw anything. No one knew what had happened to her. There was simply no sign of her. When she allows her estranged birth-father back into her life, 22 year-old Amanda thinks it could only lead to better prospects, and maybe a slightly better bank balance. Yet she is unprepared for just what an effect he was going to have on her life and that of her friends and family. This story shows how the perpetrators of crimes can often become such, simply by allowing themselves to take one step too many down a dangerous path. As the story unfolds, the consequences eventually lead both the perpetrator and the victim to the point of wondering just which of them has the most power, which of them is the dominant participant in the perilous game into which they both become immersed. Amanda wonders if she'll ever see a way out of her nightmare, and her estranged father Philip Trent if he'll have any chance at all of escaping a very long prison sentence. That's always assuming, of course, that the situation doesn't remain unresolved, in which case the stakes are impossibly high, and the future extremely uncertain, for Amanda.