Listeners, it's time to catch up with Aaron Fock.

We are so excited to share an exclusive early look at Exiles, Jane Harper's newest

Aaron Fock Thriller with you. This time, Fock must find a missing mother who vanished

on a balmy night at a neighborhood festival, leaving her new baby babbling in her stroller

alone. Keep listening for an exclusive audio excerpt, and if you like what you hear, you can

find Exiles wherever books and audiobooks are sold on January 31st.

Prologue. Think back. The signs were there. What were they? They all asked themselves the

same questions afterwards. How did it come to this? Could we have stopped it?

That was the key one, Aaron Fock knew. And the answer was probably yes. Even with no

warning, and there were warnings, the answer was almost always yes. A million decisions

paved the road to a single act, and a single act could be derailed in any one of a million

ways. But choices had been made, some conscious and considered some less so. And of all the

million paths that had lain ahead, this was the one they found themselves on.

The baby was asleep when she was discovered. She was just short of six weeks old, a good

wait for her age, healthy and well, other than being completely alone. She would have been

warm enough deep inside her bass-net stroller. She was swaddled carefully in a clean wrap

purchased from the state's leading baby wear's retailer, and tucked in with an artisan

wool blanket, thick enough to have the effect of flattening out the bundle of her shape

if placed in the right way. It had been placed in exactly that way.

A casual glance towards the stroller would inevitably first see the blanket rather than the baby.

It was a spring night and the South Australian sky was clear and stary with no rain forecast,

but the weather proof hood had been pulled over to full stretch.

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