Publisher's Synopsis
In the suffocating darkness of a Santa Barbara mansion's hidden basement, Clara has survived a nightmare decade of captivity.
Trapped by a captor who has become both her tormentor and her twisted lifeline, she walks a razor's edge between survival and surrender. "Stolen Child: Swept Under the Rug" is a heart-stopping exploration of one woman's desperate fight to reclaim her identity and freedom. As Clara plots her escape, she must confront not just her physical imprisonment, but the psychological chains of Stockholm Syndrome that threaten to drag her back into the abyss. Raw, unflinching, and impossible to put down, this is a story of survival that reveals the extraordinary resilience of the human spirit when pushed to its absolute limit.
