Read by Robert Petkoff & Maggi-Meg Reed. The Boatwrights just won $318 million in the Georgia State Lottery. It's going to be the worst day of their lives. When grifters Shaw Mc Bride & Romeo Zderko pull up at a convenience store off I-195 in Georgia, their only thought is to fix a leaky tire & be on their way again to Florida
- away from their dull Ohio tech-support jobs. But this happens to be the store from which a multimillion-dollar Jackpot ticket has just been sold, & when a pretty clerk accidentally reveals to Shaw the identity of the winning family, he hatches a ferociously audacious scheme: He & Romeo will squeeze the family for half their prize. That night, Shaw visits the Boatwright home & takes the family hostage, while Romeo patrols the streets nearby, prepared to murder the Boatwright's loved ones at any sign of resistance. At first, the family offers none. But Shaw's plot depends on maintaining constant fear
- merciless, unfaltering terror
- & soon, under the pressure, everyone's sanity begins to unravel...