Hostage

About the Book

Annie Marrow, a Jefferson Community College freshman, assumes that the handsome young man in a business suit is her father''s new assistant. But this wrong assumption leads to her kidnapping and being held hostage in a beautiful manor somewhere in the Tughill Plateau of Central New York. For the first time in her life, Annie finds herself in a situation that tests everything she has been taught as a child and believes -- her faith in God, her emotions, and her Christian convictions. Will her faith stand up to the taunts and pressures imposed on her by her guards, which include Louis the abuser and Steven the charmer? And why is she here in the first place? Her parents are not wealthy. Does this have anything to do with her father''s involvement in the pro-life movement?

About the Author

A native of Mississippi, Annie Myrtle Deas now lives in Vorea, New York. She has been married to Cecil Deas for more than 50 years and is the mother of three adults, grandmother of seven and recently became a great-grandmother. Both daughters are pastors’ wives in Upstate New York, and son, Cecil Mack Deas, Jr., works for New York Life in Maine. An alumna of Moody Bible Institute, Deas taught Sunday School for 55 years and still teaches as a substitute and speaks at women’s retreats. She served as a counselor at a Crisis Pregnancy Center where she first encountered some of the issues addressed in this book.