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She thought her biggest problem was starting junior high. She was wrong.

Twelve-year-old Chrissy Cartwright is on her way to school, excited and nervous about her first day of junior high, when a police officer stops her. A child is missing, he tells her, and he needs her help identifying the girl in a photograph.

Then everything goes black.

Days...

Trapped in darkness and stripped of her identity, Twelve is a prisoner of a man who calls himself “Lord.” As she clings to the name Mandy, she battles to retain her humanity against a sadistic captor who seeks to break her spirit. Alternating between Mandy’s harrowing captivity and her captor’s twisted mind, Monster unravels a tale of survival...