The Vine: August 29, 2014
I read a description of a book once where a guy kidnapped a teenager.
The story went like this, her neighbours had a cute boy, she was attracted to him but he never gave her notice. Anyway she phoned her friend who advises her to talk to him because he was outside shooting hoops. So the girl goes out and tries to impress him but the boy says something which gets her rattled, basically makes her feel like a kid. Then she stomps off angry when a car stops, the driver asks her for an address and flirts with the girl, who tries to make the neighbour kid jealous so she flirts back with the driver, then the driver’s like oh come closer my girlfriend’s hurt or something like that, basically he gets the girl close enough to the back door car window. Then bam the woman in the back opens the car door and grabs the girl.
The girl can’t scream due to the way she’s being held. The neighbour kid only notices when he finds a trainer on the driveway, then he starts running but by then the car’s driving away. This whole scenario is flashback and now the girl is a high-class prostitute who is still forced to do prostitution by her captor and she has a ambition that she wants to be free. There is a hero in the book, I can’t remember by the description what his role is but he helps her.
Sorry I can’t name the book ’cause frankly I don’t remember. All remember it is a dark read. Oh I also remember the cover of the book was red and the hero was assigned to kill the heroine. Also the heroine had a tattoo to remind her she needs to fight and not die.
Thanks,
S
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This is NOT it, but it reminds me of Norma Fox Mazer and Harry Mazer’s THE SOLID GOLD KID http://bit.ly/1rEugRM
S, can you narrow it down a bit more? Maybe the year you read about it? Did you read the blurb from the actual book? A review? Press release? In a bookstore? Library? Online? That might help all us obsessive literary digital-detective types! (Translation–with more info I’ll ask at the library when I volunteer tomorrow!)
Hi
Nanc I read a blurb on goodreads this year , I was interested in the book so I read the extract you get on amazon kindle of first two pages . it was due to be published in September. Its a American author sorry I can’t remember much.
Hi Sonia,
if it hasn’t been published yet you’re unlikely to find someone here who can identify it. I would keep an eye out on goodreads and on amazon for new releases in that genre and see if you can catch it when it is released.
sonia, if it’s something you read on the Kindle, shouldn’t it still be there somewhere? Or on Amazon as a listing of things you’ve read/had sent to the Kindle?
Off Sars’s comment: here’s the site where I can see what I have put on my kindle.
https://www.amazon.com/mn/dcw/myx.html#/home/content/booksAll/dateDsc/