For five years Alice has been in the clutches of her kidnapper, Ray. She is abused, beaten, and raped. Ray promises that if she dares to escape or tell anyone, he will visit her family and kill them. Alice feels like a living dead girl in a shell that is continually tortured. Alice is getting too old. Ray starves her to keep her body child-like and gives her pills to stop her period, because at fifteen years of age Alice has outgrown the ten-year-old physicality she had when Ray abducted her. So, Ray uses her to find his next victim. He sends her to the park to scope out a new girl to kidnap. Alice is not the protagonist's real name, but the name given to her by Ray. Ray himself is never physically described in detail, which brings to mind how it's said pedophiles can be the nondescript guy-next-door. This book is chilling and gripping. Because it's disturbing, I don't recommend it for everyone.