Still Missing: A Novel [Paperback]

On the day she was abducted, Annie O'Sullivan, a thirty-two-year-old realtor, had three goalssell a house, forget about a recent argument with her mother, and be on time for dinner with her ever-patient boyfriend. The open house is slow, but when her last visitor pulls up in a van as she's about to leave, Annie thinks it just might be her lucky day after all.

Interwoven with the story of the year Annie spent captive in a remote mountain cabinwhich unfolds through sessions with her psychiatristis the second narrative recounting the nightmare that follows her escape: her struggle to piece her shattered life back together, the ongoing police investigation into the identity of her captor, and the disturbing sense that things are far from over.

Chevy Stevens'sStill Missingis a shocking, visceral, brutal, and beautifully crafted novel about surviving the unsurvivableand living to bear witness.

Heart pounding . . . Stevens pulls out all the stops in this cat-and-mouse battle between a brilliant psychopath and his tenacious victim. . . .Still Missingis the not-to-be-missed thriller of the year. Lisa Gardner, New York Times bestselling author of Love You More

Still Missingruns deeper than the chills it delivers. . . .  Janet Maslin, The New York Times

This debut novel has the power to shock and awe with its explosively frightening premise about a woman who is kidnapped by a stranger and held against her will for more than year. Chevy Stevens is sure to rock lovers of the thriller genre. USA Today

1. How would you describe Annie's character...especially those qualities that enable her to survive her ordeal at the hands of The Freak? How well might you have fared?
2. At some point during captivity, Annie begins to almost like The Freak. She goes to far as to admit that sometimes he's kinda sweet. Although identifying with a captor is a known phenomenon-referred to as the StockholCÏ