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Captives

  • Jan 27, 2021
  • Megan Whitson Lee
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Captives Winner of the Blue Ridge Mountain Christian Writer s Conference Director s Choice Awards Selah Award FinalistWhen seventeen year old Amy Timothy disappears from a rural Virginia truck stop w

  • Title: Captives
  • Author: Megan Whitson Lee
  • ISBN: 9781519180711
  • Page: 443
  • Format: Paperback

    • Winner of the 2016 Blue Ridge Mountain Christian Writer s Conference Director s Choice Awards2016 Selah Award FinalistWhen seventeen year old Amy Timothy disappears from a rural Virginia truck stop, world renowned cellist Blaise Timothy puts her life on hold to join the search for her sister While conducting her own investigation into Amy s disappearance, Blaise seeks solWinner of the 2016 Blue Ridge Mountain Christian Writer s Conference Director s Choice Awards2016 Selah Award FinalistWhen seventeen year old Amy Timothy disappears from a rural Virginia truck stop, world renowned cellist Blaise Timothy puts her life on hold to join the search for her sister While conducting her own investigation into Amy s disappearance, Blaise seeks solace in addictive and destructive relationships Three years later, the search for Amy becomes a homicide investigation and catches the attention of national media and sex trafficking activists Less than a mile from where Amy s body is recovered, Andrew Victor attempts to manage a failing career in art, an addiction to pornography, and a family secret that links him to the murder investigation In Washington, DC, Asha Edgewater knows first hand the horrors of sex slavery and lends support to the Timothy family even as she comes to terms with her own past As all three lives intersect in their search for redemption and healing, they find it is only possible through God s saving grace.

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    About "Megan Whitson Lee"

    1. Megan Whitson Lee

      Megan Whitson Lee grew up in Kingsport, Tennessee, before moving to Northern Virginia at the age of thirteen She studied music and vocal performance and earned a Bachelor in Music before hearing ancestral voices calling her to England In London, Megan interned as a literary assistant for Soho Theatre Company and worked odd jobs through a temp agency before returning to America where she received a Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing from George Mason University Her self published novel, All That is Right and Holy won second place in the 2009 Christian Choice Book Awards Megan now teaches high school English in Fairfax County where she lives with her husband, retired racing greyhound Chase and rescued Italian greyhound Trinity As a writer, Megan s main goal is to connect with her readers through realistic storytelling that depicts the pain of loss, the joy of gain, and relatable outcomes that don t always end as hoped or planned Through it all, her fervent desire is to give glory to God in all of her works, and hopefully touch lives with God s message of faith, hope, and redemption.

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    1. Captives is one of those books that gets under your skin. You know the kind of book I'm talking about: you can't stop thinking about it in between reads. When you're finished, you're left missing the characters. The book is told from three perspectives: the sister of a missing girl, a former sex-slavery victim who helps with the search for the missing girl, and a sex addict who lives in the neighborhood where the missing girl is found. (She's found early in the story, so that isn't giving anythi [...]

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    2. Hello readers, I had been thinking about writing a novel involving sex trafficking since 2002, but in 2006 I finally got started. When I wrote the original version of this book, the term "sex trafficking" was just beginning to pop up within national news stories. Nowadays, most everyone has heard the term and many have been directly affected by the industry. I don't want to minimize the ugliness and brutality of this trade in any way. My portrayal of Asha's and Amy's experiences is tame compared [...]

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    3. Megan Whitson Lee has written a powerful book about addictions that will capture you from the first page. She writes about addictions that we don't like to think about in a way that offers hope. Lee has skillfully woven the story around the death of a teenager caught up in human trafficking. She handles a difficult subject in a tasteful way without diminishing the pain of those caught up in sexual addictions. This is a book you will not soon forget. The characters will stay with you long after y [...]

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    4. "Captives" surprised me in several ways -- all of them good.I have always disliked a multiple-narrator approach, but Lee weaves the 3 perspectives smoothly and connects them in ways that are realistic and believable. No contrivances here!I had no idea this was a novel about human trafficking until I read the back cover, and when I did, my heart sank with the fear that this would be a dark, depressing novel that sensationalizes a very-real problem. There are "dark" moments; anything else in a nov [...]

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    5. Three lives, three years, three stories. Asha Edgewater, Andrew Victor and Blaise Timothy struggle to overcome self destructive behaviors, relationships and memories, before their lives eventually intersect around the heart breaking mystery of one missing teenager. Blaise Timothy's sister has been kidnapped at the age of seventeen and purportedly absorbed into a highly lucrative sex trafficking network. A world-renowned cellist, Blaise interrupts her music career to assist with the search for he [...]

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    6. Her life shattered the day her sister disappeared.Blaise Timothy dreamed of finding her sister alive. And free.A dream that is destroyed the day they find Amy's body.As the search for Amy's killer begins, Blaise's life becomes inescapably intertwined with two unlikely spectators: Asha, who escaped the world of sex traffic, but cannot escape the chains of memory that bind her life, and Andrew, whose secret sex addiction has frayed his dreams--- and his hope of a future. One by one they must face [...]

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