Histria Books is pleased to announce the release of Taken by Corie L. Calcutt. This thriller is published by Histria Fiction, an imprint of Histria Books dedicated to outstanding original works of fiction.
Taken opens with an ordinary late-night errand and turns it into every parent’s quiet fear: a young man grabbed off a small-town street and forced into the passenger seat of a fugitive’s flight across rural America. The story stays so tightly inside Luke’s experience that every choice feels immediate and personal: the filth of the van, the ache of the cuffs, the calculations he runs every time a stranger walks into the room who might save him or die for it.
Its charge comes from that relentless, close-up perspective and from how the book is less about set pieces than about the shifting power between captive and captor, and the terrible pressure that puts on everyone they brush past. It understands how true-crime headlines feel from the inside, where victims are misread, witnesses are silenced, and survival depends on tiny, stubborn acts of resistance. Readers who crave psychological intensity grounded in real-world terror will not be able to look away.
A Michigan resident with a Creative Writing degree, Corie L. Calcutt has been writing off and on for several years. She still dreams of work as a special education teacher, and is actively pursuing that goal in addition to all her other hobbies (which include writing, reading and watching mysteries on television).
