Millham Women

About the Book

Three hard-hearted mountaineers snatch college freshman Kellie Kidler and fifteen-year-old twins Ann and Nan Furman, haul them away to an isolated shack, and keep them captive for ten years, using beatings and the loss of fingers as deterrents to escape. The three Millham women survive mainly by caring for the baby they delivered to a dying mother the night of their capture. Their story is doled out as they struggle to fit back into their former lives with a mingling of shame, romance, and humor. Kellie, especially, struggles with her Christian conviction to forgive the Millham man who stole ten years of her life.

About the Author

Dorothy Alease Phillips, a former high school English and journalism teacher, has expressed her personal love for writing over the years by writing essays, short stories, plays, and novels.

For over ten years after retirement, she has led writing groups whose members have encouraged her to share her stored-away writings.

Millham Women, perhaps unbelievable when written a few years ago, is now—since May 12, 2013—believable in the aftermath of three young women’s rescue after ten years in captivity.