Ten After Closing
Jessica Bayliss
Rated: 3.50 of 5 stars
3.50
· 6 ratings · 328 pages · Published: 04 Sep 2018
10PM: Closing time at Café Flores. The door should be locked, but it isn't. Scott Bradley and Winsome Sommervil are about to become hostages.
TEN MINUTES BEFORE CLOSING: Scott's girlfriend breaks up with him in the café's basement storeroom because he's late picking her up for the big end-of-the-year party. Now he can't go to the party, but he can't go home, either?not knowing his dad will still be in a drunken rage. Meanwhile, Winny wanted one night to let loose, away from her mother's crushing expectations. Instead, she's stranded at the café after her best friend ditches her in a misguided attempt at matchmaking.
TEN MINUTES AFTER CLOSING: The first gunshot is fired. Someone's dead. And if Winny, Scott, and the rest of the hostages don't come up with a plan soon, they may not live to see morning.
Told from both Winny and Scott's perspectives, and alternating between the events leading up to and following the hold-up, Ten After Closing is an explosive story of teens wrestling with their own challenges, thrown into circumstances that will test their very limits.
Tagged as:
- thriller 4
- contemporary 3
- realistic 3
- multiple pov 2
- family 2
- romantic love 2
- protagonists of colour 1
- Add topics
- format - reader age
- young adult 3
- book 1
- content warnings
- substance abuse 1