Story of a Stolen Girl, Paperback/Pat Spencer

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Description At the invitation of her psychology professor, Darby Richards and her college roommate attend a private gambling club. Darby is drugged, kidnapped, and sold through an international human trafficking cartel serving world leaders, corporate CEO's, and even the President's Cabinet. A puff of the Columbian drug, the Devil's Breath, renders Darby utterly compliant, controlled by suggestion, and responsive to verbal commands. While held in Ankara, Turkey, she is befriended by other stolen women whose stories, compilations of actual victims, weave throughout the plot. When the FBI, LAPD, and an executive kidnapping insurance company fail to bring her daughter home, Darby's widowed mother, Nina Richards, concludes she must wait no longer for someone else to rescue her daughter. But what can she do? What would you do to rescue your only child?About the author Dr. Pat Spencer authored a textbook, newspaper and magazine columns, as well as trade and scholarly articles. She received degrees from Riverside Community College, University of La Verne, and University of California, Riverside. She began her academic career as a community college teacher and retired as a college president. She lives in Southern California with her husband, Mike. Why I wrote Story of a Stolen Girl. I began my professional career in the California Community College system as a cosmetology instructor and retired as a college president. During this time, my primary goal was to develop programs, services, and facilities to improve student opportunities and achievements. In that spirit, I wanted to write a novel that would make a difference. Every year, 800, 000 children, women, and men are trafficked. Human trafficking, as the fastest growing crime in the world, is also the most under-reported. From infant to young adult, children are sold as slaves. To survive, they struggle in untenable conditions to secure the most minimal form of survival. Children work in the sex industry, in mines, in homes