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Taking Elyse

Forty days of feeling terrified. Forty days of constant danger. Forty days of fear for her life. Will she get out of the ordeal alive? Will she finally uncover the truth in the end?

As middle-class suburban mother runs errands alone on a cold winter night, she is unaware that two men in an SUV have been following her for more than two hours. As the SUV suddenly pulls in front of Elyse Broderick and one of the men walks toward her car for directions, Elyse does what any trusting person would do—she helps them. Until that night, nothing extraordinary has ever happened to Elyse.

When Elyse does not return home when expected, her husband, Peter, frantically calls the police in the middle of the night. Detective Anthony Macie is summoned to an abandoned vehicle with the keys still in the ignition, the tank full of gas, a purse on the passenger seat, and the owner, Elyse, missing. With no clues, no motive, no suspects, and a ticking clock, Detective Macie struggles to make the pieces fit in what has seemingly become an impossible puzzle.

In this mystery thriller, a woman suddenly plucked from her ordinary life by two mysterious abductors must embark on a dangerous journey of survival where she must rely on her faith and her gut instincts to lead her to safety—and the truth.

Jody Fife pens a stunning novel rich with mystery and intrigue in Taking Elyse.