Abduction

by Wanda Dyson

  While writing this novel, the ten-year-old daughter of a friend asked me what I was writing about. I told her I was writing about children being kidnapped. She said, “Oh,” nonchalantly and proceeded to tell me that a friend of hers had been kidnapped. She then went on to tell me in graphic detail about her friend’s abduction, torture, and murder. After researching many such cases, the details didn’t strike me nearly as much as her calm acceptance of the event. To her, it was part of life. Such things were to be expected.

  And that broke my heart.

  Our children are being raised in a society in which such events are commonplace. They are losing friends and siblings to drive-by shootings, abductions, and worse, with little more than a shrug of their tiny shoulders. Innocence is lost and their senses barraged by violence. We have the power to change that. It begins with prayer. And for some of you, it means getting involved. I hope you will feel led to do something, even if it’s just writing a check to help someone else bring a child home safe and sound.

  For more information on how you can help bring our children home, please contact any of the following organizations:

  Klass Kids Foundation: www.KlaasKids.org; (415) 331-6867

  National Center for Missing and Exploited Children:

  www.missingkids.org; 1-800-The-Lost

  Amber Alert Foundation: www.AmberAlertNow.org

  Safe Kids International: www.SafeKidsInternational.com

  Child Find: 1-800-I-Am-Lost

  acknowledgments

  With love to all those wonderful people that the Lord placed in my life to help make this book possible: Marlene Bagnull, Christi Horowitz, Tracie Peterson, Karen King, Joanie Barrineau, Gary Mascelli, and all the prayer warriors who kept me undergirded.

  Gratitude and thanks to Mike Nappa, Shannon Hill, Tracie Peterson, and the people at Barbour.

  Special thanks to the people at the U.S. Department of Justice, the KlaasKids Foundation, and the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children for their research assistance.

  And to law enforcement officers across this nation who work so hard to bring our children home—and especially the Maryland State Police for bringing my little girl back to me safe and sound.

  About the Author

  Wanda L. Dyson is the author of five critically-acclaimed suspense novels, as well as a non-fiction book that was featured on Oprah. She resides in North Carolina with her daughter and German Shepherd, Maya.

  For more information on Wanda and her books, visit her website at www.WandaDyson.com