{"product_id":"2940012665256","title":"STACY'S STORY","description":"\"...the pages fly by. Blenkush's second thriller holds the reader in its terrifying,\u003cbr\u003esuspenseful grip from the first day the couple sets up their campsite all the\u003cbr\u003eway to the explosive climax. With Stacy, Blenkush has created a memorable protagonist\u003cbr\u003ewho's appealingly courageous and strong-willed.\" ~ Kirkus Reviews\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Powerful and emotionally overwhelming. I cried at the end. An incredible story. I highly recommend it.\" ~ Melissa Brown Levine, Independent Professional Book Reviewers\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e4 stars!  8 Dec 2012 \u003cbr\u003eGripping from start to end.  Full of real life emotion.  Makes you wonder how you would survive these circumstances!  Did not want to put down until I finished! ~ Margaret T \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Thought this book was amazing. I am not into dark stories about kidnap\u003cbr\u003eetc but as soon as I started to read I just couldn't stop. Very sad, heroic but\u003cbr\u003ewith a very bright ending. Brilliant, and would recommend to others.\" ~ A.Niriain\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWhat would you do if someone obliterated life as you know it and stole your\u003cbr\u003efuture? Give up? Lie down and die? Fight back? Maim? Destroy? Even kill? How\u003cbr\u003efar would you go to save self?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eStacy Freeman grew up in Long Beach, CA, a coddled LA Valley girl. Hers was an\u003cbr\u003eidyllic world, absent of strife until, as a teen, she watched her twin sister succumb to a rare disease. Stacy vowed then and there to do everything she could to nurture\u003cbr\u003eand defend life. She became a nurse, married her soul mate, Cory, and set her\u003cbr\u003esights on their future, dreaming of the day they would create life together by\u003cbr\u003egiving birth to a child.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAnd then, while on a back-packing trip into the northern California wilderness,\u003cbr\u003eher life and her dreams are changed forever. For five days she is imprisoned\u003cbr\u003ein a look-out tower, physically and psychologically traumatized by the fire\u003cbr\u003etower's caretaker.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHow Stacy converts abject fear into unrelenting courage in order to survive is her story.","brand":"John Blenkush","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47068571861232,"sku":"2940012665256","price":5.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940012665256_p0.jpg?v=1763571510","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940012665256","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}