When Fear Becomes a Kidnapper

About the Book

Our plans for the June weekend were simple: camp on Friday and Saturday night in a pretty little mountain campground and drive our youth group down to San Juan Capistrano on Sunday for a beach outing. Saturday evening, a group of motorcyclists roared into the campground. Shouting that there were children asleep, the camp manager ordered them to get out. They left as noisily as they had come in. I drifted back to sleep. Bam! Bam! Gunshots jolted me awake! “It won’t work to shoot ’em in the head,” a man’s voice said. “When they do the autopsy, it will show they were shot with a 410.” “Get the rope and turn the lights on this bunch of trees and start here! If you find any little ones, just hang ’em in their bags!” Frantically tearing the back screen from our tent and awaking my twelve-year-old daughter, we began a terrifying two-week flight for help and survival! This is our true story.

About the Author

Peggy Dotson Hunter is the third of four children born to Orval and Gladys Chrisenbery Dotson. She spent her elementary school years living in the Salinas Valley of California, where as a young girl of nine years old she knelt in her bedroom closet and gave her heart to the Lord Jesus Christ. Her high school years were spent in Hemet, California, about an hours drive from Palm Springs. Her heartfelt desires were to be a Christian, a mother, a teacher and a secretary. Marrying her high school sweetheart, Michael, she later became the mother of 5 and was able to fulfill her goal of teaching children about Jesus in a weekly Sabbath School class, and spending the majority of her working years as an Administrative Secretary for Southeastern California Conference of Seventh-day Adventists. Eight of her favorite years were working with Evangelist Kenneth Cox, sharing the Gospel message.