Elizabeth Scott (Perfect You), who usually writes light teen romances, has dramatically shifted gears with a gripping novel that concerns the horrifying plight of a victim of abduction and repeated rape by a sexual predator. When a ten year-old girl is lured away from a class trip, she becomes the unwilling captive of Ray, a manipulative and deranged psychopath who renames her "Alice," and subjects her to starvation, physical and sexual abuse, and repeated threats to her family if she attempts to escape. Five years later, Alice, who calls herself a "living dead girl," is fifteen years old, and Ray, who is displeased with her "maturity," tells Alice to find another young girl to replace her. Alice knows that she is the second of this kidnapper's victims - Ray killed the first. How can this traumatized teenager break free from a monster's grasp? This is a frightening book, and readers will be held spellbound until the conclusion.
