Fifty Minutes Away Trilogy · Book 1
Fifty Minutes Away
A delay. A disappearance. They were waiting.
Kayla’s disappearance begins with a missed connection and two women who know exactly how to exploit it, drawing a routine police investigation into a world of seduction, trafficking and calculated manipulation.

- Book
- 1 of 3
- Format
- Ebook
- Type
- Suspense
Fifty minutes is all they need.
About the book
Shawn’s delayed train leaves Kayla alone for less than an hour. Dressed for their date and drawing attention everywhere she goes, she has no reason to imagine that the two glamorous women watching her have already decided exactly what to do with the opportunity.
Victoria and Natalya waste no time. Seduction comes first, disarming Kayla before danger ever has to announce itself. By the time attraction gives way to something darker, the women have turned one unexpected delay into the beginning of a carefully executed abduction.
Fifty Minutes Away follows that intoxicating slide from attention to temptation to captivity, where the very qualities that allow Kayla to command everyone’s attention also make her so valuable to those who see beauty as something to be acquired and sold.
Character, pressure and choice
The tension at the centre
Kayla’s plight begins with attraction. Victoria and Natalya do not need to overpower her immediately because they understand how much easier it is to make her cross the first line willingly. By the time Kayla realises how completely she has misread the situation, temptation has already become captivity.
Emily enters the story from the opposite side of the crime scene, yet proves vulnerable to a different kind of temptation. Watching footage connected to the case, she finds herself responding to what she sees in ways no lead investigator should, blurring the line between professional curiosity and private desire long before she understands how dangerous that weakness may become.
At the centre
Four women. One investigation already losing its boundaries.
Beauty and vulnerability
Kayla
Strong, petite and incredibly glamorous, Kayla arrives for her date night looking and feeling her best. Her warmth, confidence and openness make her magnetic. Victoria and Natalya see those same qualities as an opening.
Seduction and control
Victoria
Ruthless, composed and devastatingly persuasive, Victoria knows that force is often unnecessary when temptation works faster. She uses Natalya as both lover and weapon, selecting only the most desirable targets and making their downfall feel like something they chose.
Beauty and entrapment
Natalya
Victoria’s lover and most effective lure, Natalya can overwhelm a target simply by getting close enough. Her beauty, enhanced curves and hypnotic confidence make her feel less like a warning than a reward, right up until escape stops being an option.
Ambition and appetite
Emily
Brilliant, beautiful and intensely competitive, Emily is accustomed to taking risks in pursuit of a result. Rules matter less to her than winning, and the case begins testing whether the same appetite that drives her career can also compromise her judgement.
Your next Bret Vautour story
Why read Fifty Minutes Away?
For a police investigation where the women on both sides of the case are as dangerous as they are desirable.
Fifty Minutes Away pairs Kayla’s calculated seduction and abduction with Emily’s first steps into an investigation she is not as emotionally insulated from as she believes. Victoria and Natalya know exactly how effective their charms can be, even on women who think they know better, while Emily brings intelligence, ambition and a willingness to bend the rules into a world where those qualities may be turned against her.
The reading sequence
Continue the trilogy
Desire. Decision. Consequence.
Kayla let them get close enough to touch.
They responded with tight, cold steel around her wrists.
Fifty Minutes Away Trilogy · Book 1

