Trapped: A Modernization
F. Freeman
Paperback
(Re.ad Select, May 6, 2016)
In this psychological thriller, we meet Lily, a girl willing to be held hostage in the middle of the forest by an ex-drug addict in order to save her father’s life.Lily’s father, Don, suffers a terrible car crash, and Lily finds his car at the bottom of an embankment. After battling through a dark forest and the terrible cold, she comes upon a lone cabin in the middle of the woods. There she finds her father chained to a wall--held hostage by Seven, the cabin's owner and an ex-drug addict who now believes that he is The Chosen One. Lily is able to convince Seven to let her father go by taking her father's place. As the story develops, we witness--through Lily's journal entries--that she is becoming a victim of Stockholm Syndrome. Lily must ultimately choose between trusting Seven, who is now her only companion, or believing her fears that his madness may have driven him to murder. Will she be able to find the truth in time or will she pay the ultimate price?