Missing In Flight

Somewhere between Anchorage and New York, Makayla Rossi looks in on her sleeping son and finds the bassinet empty.

The crew searches the aircraft. Passengers check under seats and in the galleys and the lavatories. There is nowhere for a baby to be on a plane at thirty thousand feet that a full search would not find, and Liam is not anywhere.

Then the questions turn around. None of the crew remembers checking her in with an infant. None of the passengers near her remembers seeing one. Audrey J. Cole moves the book from a search to an interrogation of Makayla herself, in a sealed metal tube where she cannot get away from any of the people now deciding whether her son was ever there.