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Gemma, a British city-living teenager, is kidnapped while on holiday with her parents. Her kidnapper, Ty, takes her to the wild land of outback Australia. To Gemma's city-eyes, the landscape is harsh and unforgiving and there are no other signs of human life for hundreds of kilometres in every direction. Here, there is no escape. Gemma must learn to deal with her predicament, or die trying to fight it. Ty, a young man, has other ideas for her. His childhood experience of living in outback Australia has forever changed the way he sees things. But he too has been living in the city; Gemma's city. Unlike Gemma, however, he has had enough. In outback Australia he sees an opportunity for a new kind of life; a life more connected to the earth. He has been watching and learning about Gemma for many years; when he kidnaps her, his plan finally begins to take shape. But Ty is not a stereotypical kidnapper and, over time, Gemma comes to see Ty in a new light, a light in which he is something more sensitive. The mysteries of Ty, and the mystery of her new life, start to take hold. She begins to feel something for her kidnapper when he wakes screaming in the night. Over the time spent with her captor, Gemma's appreciation of him develops into what could be referred to as Stockholm syndrome.
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EDIT: 4th time reading my all time favourite book! SO IN LOVE
Third time reading my all time favourite book and I still cry. Its been my favourite for 6 years and I don't see it being taken of my number one spot for years. Will pay anyone to read this book, I want this book tattooed on my forehead
It really, really bothers me that there are readers who find this kidnapping scenario romantic.
So oddly enough I really got into this book. I say it's odd because I actually began to like the kidnapper. The author did really well and making me basically feel like the main character, in the way that she herself is even conflicted a bit at the end. She knows what he did was horrible but yet she grew feelings for him. Would be nice of there was a sequel.
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