Blog 2

This novel shifts from the hostage ordeal to the indignities suffered by the imprisoned young Russian girls as seen through the eyes of Olena and Mila. The Mother is in charge and forces them to travel by a chauffered van to a boat docked near the Potomac River in Virginia.

After "Jane Doe" calls the radio station, an unidentified man walks past police barricades and into the hospital. The FBI identify him as Joseph Roke, a man with an arrest warrant for killing a policeman. Together, the pair issue several stipulations for the release of a few hostages, one of which includes a live feed to the media. Meanwhile, Gabriel Dean is frantic about his wife who is in the midst of labor. Added to this concern is a television reporter's revelation that Jane Rizzoli is a police detective. Gabriel decides to go in alone as a negotiator, despite the cancellation of any such action by the feds.

The story transitions to the Russian captives where two dark-clothed killers enter the house and kill Mother and the girls except for Mila and Olena who had escaped to the roof. The two girls find money in Mother's closet and head into the woods. They are picked up on the road by a lone man, Joe, who takes them to his cabin for a short while before leaving the home for a safer place.