SHORTCUT TO TERROR Cassie Maltham was ten that August afternoon in 1975 when her cousin Suzie vanished -- almost before Cassie's eyes -- never to be seen again. Now, twenty years later, Cassie has returned to the quiet English seashore village where Suzie was last seen, to confront the disaster that changed Cassie's life forever. Little has altered. The greenway -- the ancient sheltered pathway in whose leafy secret depths Suzie had disappeared -- is still there. And soon another young girl is swallowed in its shadow. Has Cassie's return provoked this second sinister tragedy? One thing is certain: Evil, inexorable and insatiable, has awakened from its long slumber and is once more on the move. . .