Book Description
"After being abducted, chained and beaten for weeks, the torturous training begins, but training for what exactly, Jackie doesn't know. Each of the six men join in the training process and by threatening to go after her daughter find the only motivation she needs to follow her captors every command, no matter what her conscience tells her. Finding strength after the months of abuse and torturous training she realizes the only way to beat them is to be better than them."I don't know about you, but I am tired of the damsel in distress that always trips from her high heels and sprains her ankle, only to be saved by the macho man and held close to him, at the edge of a cliff, as they look off into the sunset. The End.The first in a series, this 330 page novel, begins the story of a single mother abducted while on a shopping trip with Abby, her teenage daughter. Jackie finds herself in a rickety shack, joined by rats, where she is chained and beaten by four of the rogue ex-military men and doctored by the fifth for weeks. In time and as she complies, she is moved to more suitable dwellings and learns these men are part of an illegal arms ring led by C.S.Kulwicki, who has made most of his fortune as an assassin for hire. Getting older, Kulwicki felt it was time to train his replacement and decided she would be perfect. Suffering from the early stages of dementia he wavers between treating her like the daughter he lost years ago and the prisoner she actually is, using her own daughter as leverage. With eighteen years in law enforcement Jackie struggles between what she knows is right and following his orders to keep herself alive and her Abby safe. After months of abuse and torturous training she realizes the only way to beat them is to be better than them and begins secretly training at night, pushing herself to every limit. After being forced to assassinate a drug dealer and one of Kulwicki's own men, Jackie can't take any more. With help from friends and a well executed "accident" with a crocodile, she readies plan a and plan b for her escape. When their van is unexpectedly surrounded by several officers and Kulwicki orders her to set off explosives so they are not taken alive, she quickly devises and executes plan c. Now that her nightmare is over, what does she do with all of her new found skills? Is her nightmare really over?