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Book SynopsisLisa''s father kidnapped her to keep her in a cult at age seven. Nine years later, she has the chance to live a new lifebut is she ready to leave the cult behind?
After her parents'' divorce, seven-year-old Lisa''s father convinces her to leave home in the middle of the night. After all, according to their radical religious beliefs, she belongs to him, and it is her duty to obey him. Ever the dutiful daughterat least outwardlyand confused by the sinful changes in her mother, Lisa complies.
For the next nine years, Lisa and her father go from place to placehiding out in a rural town populated by the cult, living on the streets, and preaching the Word. She is taught that her mother, who divorced her father and left the cult, is deemed dead by the Word''s doctrinea shell without a soul. The only school she''s allowed to attend is one run by one of the cult''s community leaders. They forbid reading books or watching television. She has to be small, quiet, and mode
