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Prologue

When someone saves your life, you owe them

When so time

My kidnapping at the age of fifteen and my father’s inability to come up with the ransom money left him no other choice but to turn to the only person who could help hius Foley

I don’t re itself or the four days I was held in captivity I’ve got a therapist who says it’swith the trauma Sometimes there are flashes of memory, but I usually try to push those out of my head

The outcome, I remember

See,problem He was already in serious debt to the Foley faible money to pay his debts, let alone a de he could offer for one successful rescue us Foley’s son and heir, Sean

I’anization, but arrange a future quite different from the one I had anticipated

Chapter 1

I’ve always consideredchocolate chips in your pancakes didn’t mean that the restaurant you are in served them that way When it was picture day at school, but no one had bothered to do laundry the day before, you couldn’t alear your favorite shirt When you outgrew that favorite shirt, and Dad had a fistful of cash froet a new one that was even prettier than the last—complete with sequins or ruffles or whatever you were into that year When Dad lost the ga trip

Sorade, twoyou into a less van They tie you up and say they are going to kill you if your father doesn’t deliver some ridiculous a streak and in overnment

What else can your dad do but est criht home safely?

Prag country road leading to a new life

This is thefor, but I can’t concentrate on the scenery as my father cruises his older-model BMW around curved roads and up steep hills I barely slept last night, and I doze with ainst the

I’ motion, but I can’t see There’s a blindfold aroundthem at the center of my back My temple throbs, but I’m not sure if it’s because of the punch I took to the face or the pressure of the floor where I lie, curled up in a ball

“It’s past the deadline He ain’t gonna make it”

“What now?”

“Kill her, that’s what”