"IF YOU WANT TO DIE, SIT DOWN HERE. WE WILL KILL YOU. IF YOU DON'T WANT TO DIE, YOU WILL ENTER THE TRUCK."

Ruth and Gemma have a Physics exam in the morning. Becky and Allelluia are revising for their A Levels. So it's an absolute nightmare to be woken by the fire alarm in the dead of the night. But for them, and for 272 other girls from Chisbrook Hall girls boarding school, the real nightmare is just beginning. Because 'al-Qabda' are taking them all away. Whether they want to go or not.

"I hope that reading someday will help people living in a different culture, in a security most Christians, and indeed Muslims, in north-eastern Nigeria can scarcely imagine, to better understand what people are suffering here." IGNATIUS A. KAIGAMA, Archbishop of Jos, Nigeria.

"The kidnapping of the Nigerian girls should never be written off merely as an unpleasant historical event, about which we can no longer do anything ... This book leaves you wanting to know more, wanting the girls to be rescued, wanting a happy ending. Alas, real life is different." The Right Honourable ANN WIDDECOMBE, DSG