About This Book

Gemma, 16, is on layover at Bangkok Airport, en route with her parents to a vacation in Vietnam. She steps away for just a second, to get a cup of coffee. Ty — rugged, tan, gorgeous, too old, oddly familiar — pays for Gemma's drink. And drugs it. They talk. Their hands touch. And before Gemma knows what's happening, Ty takes her. Steals her away. The unknowing object of a long obsession, Gemma has been kidnapped by her stalker and brought to the desolate Australian Outback. This wild and desolate landscape becomes almost a character in the book, so vividly is it described.

Stolen is Gemma's gripping story of survival — of how she has to come to terms with her living nightmare or die trying to fight it.

Praise for Stolen

"Christopher’s first novel is a complex psychological study that is also a tribute to the hypnotic beauty of the outback" and provides "ample opportunity for thought and discussion." — Booklist

"From its compelling opening, the novel delivers taut suspense and a riveting plot in a haunting setting." — Kirkus

2011 Printz Honor Book