These stories remind me that I’m safe and I’m loved. I sometimes get bogged down in my own life and forget to be thankful for what I do have. I enjoy reading the stories of the survivors because I find them to be hopeful and inspiring. I’ve always had a weird fascination with kidnapping stories. Months when the lines between love and obsession, and love and dependency, blur until they don't exist-almost. The story takes the form of a letter, written by Gemma to Ty, reflecting on those strange and disturbing months in the outback. Under the hot glare of the Australian sun, cut off from the world outside, can the force of his love make Gemma love him back? This new life in the wilderness has been years in the planning. He is young, fit and completely gorgeous. This wild and desolate landscape becomes almost a character in the book, so vividly is it described. Sixteen-year-old Gemma is kidnapped from Bangkok airport and taken to the Australian Outback. Taken from everything I knew, everything I was used to. Published by Chicken House on May 4, 2009 Stolen: A Letter to My Captor by Lucy Christopher
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