"In the middle of one of the worst civil wars in the Arab state, Louise Monaghan walked across a heavily guarded border, dressed in European clothing, to save her six year old child from the father who had so callously snatched her from her home in Cyprus. Not knowing what lay ahead, the Irish mother tricked her ex-husband into believing she still loved him and wanted to live as a family once again, just so that she could see her kidnapped child again. Once in his homeland, she too was held captive, locked inside a run down house day and night with little food and no hope of escape. Severely beaten by Mostafa Assad, she was left unconscious on the ground in front of their child, but just 24 hours later she and her little girl miraculously escaped. The journey they made through bomb attacks and sniper fire and across a heavily guarded mountain range in the dead of night, led by illegal people smugglers, is a miracle in itself. Somehow they both survived, and this is their story."--Provided by the publisher.