Taliban Escape - One Woman's Journey Out of Hell

To Sara and Jake, it sounded like a perfect spring break from their post-graduate university work: two weeks in the foothills of the Karakoram Mountains in Pakistan.  Sara would study and photograph a rare mountain goat called the Markhor, the focus of her zoology dissertation.  Fiancé Jake, a graphics arts major, would photograph K2, the most dangerous mountain in the world.  Their guide also promised they would be nowhere near all the fighting and killing that was going in in Afghanistan.

Sara and Jake's dream vacation begins to crumble, however, when Sara is nearly arrested as soon as they arrive at the Islamabad airport.  Her crime?  Wearing shorts and a halter top in a Muslim country.  Hours later, their dream turns into a full-fledged nightmare when their guide disappears and their camp is overrun by robed, hostile, and heavily-armed extremists.  After murdering Jake, they gang rape Sara and then carry her off to a cold wet cell, in a hidden cave, in a nameless mountain valley.  In less than forty-eight hours, a carefree university student is turned into a brutalized sex slave for the Taliban.  The question is: how will she escape?

Joanna Yoder grew up on a primitive Amish farm in Ohio.  It was a land of horse-drawn buggies, picturesque cornfields, and hay-filled barns--a land of submissive wives, obedient children, and bearded dominent males.  But it was also a land that Joanna was detemined to flee, not matter what the cost.

Her journey to freedom took her from a one-room Amish schoolhouse to the competitive world of university sports and a degree in marketing.  After accepting a position with a new and expanding sportswear company in Florida, her world took a giant leap forward.   This new and very exciting world now included Bentley automobiles, luxurious hotels, and a mysterious and sexy med student.

Finally liberated from her smothering past, Joanna welcomes this dream-world-come-true with open arms.  What she didn't know, however, was that dreams sometimes become nightmares, and nightmares can become reality.  This particular nightmare--whose name might or might NOT be Carlos--wanted more than a night of passion in a five-star hotel.  What he wanted was part of Joanna's body!