Gemma is off on holiday with her parents when the mysterious Ty approaches her at the airport - initially flattered by the attention she little realises that he is actually planning to kidnap her and take her to live in the Australian outback. From that point on Gemma must survive and deal with the complex emotions that arises from this situation.
There are times when I wish I was a teen reader again, discovering books and stories for the first time - sometimes as an adult you read books with preconceived ideas and waiting for the author to follow the plan - and when they do it is really disappointing and a little dull. Lucy Christopher doesn't do that with Stolen and it really did read as something fresh, original and unsettling. You never really are allowed to make your mind up about Ty - is he a damaged young man needing sympathy or mentally ill and dangerous? Christopher also doesn't give you a nice, tied up ending like people expect from teen fiction but one that lingers in your mind for some time after reading.
"There were o car horns. No trains. No beeping pedestrian crossings. No lawnmowers. No planes. No sirens. No alarms. No anything human. If you'd told me then that you'd saved me from a nuclear holocaust, I might have believed you"
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