I very much enjoyed this book. Based on the real life kidnapping victim Sally Horner in her story Lolita but this time told from Sally's point of view. How easy it was to convince this young girl to go so easily with a total stranger. How could her mother just hand her over to a man she didn't even know. How Sally wanted to protect her family from her little secret shop lifting mistake. How alone Sally felt, feeling that she was doing the right thing to pay for her mistake all the while her family was looking for her with no clue where she had gone. How the police put so little effort into trying to find Sally. How many people she came in contact with that she did not dare tell the truth to, confide her crime to save herself. It is hard to imagine how things like this could happen so easily when we are surrounded by media, kids today are so street smart, but in those simpler times, you trusted the adults, you trusted authority.

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