Two young women from very different cultures, one a hostage,

the other a child soldier and terrorist, are thrown together

into a nightmarish ordeal

Based on a true story, this is a remarkable and intelligent new

thriller by the author of the award-winning The Go-Away Bird

It’s time for Luz to become a woman. In her Amazonian tribe that means being painted blue and having your hair ripped out by your family. But if that’s what it takes to be a grown-up Luz wants no part of it.

It’s time for Sarah to become an adult and see the world after finishing her degree. But what begins as an exciting trek through the jungle of Colombia soon becomes a terrifying and life-changing ordeal.

This is their story. A story about hostages and kidnappers, adults and children. But, the question is, which is which?

Sarah, a backpacking student and her tour group get kidnapped by guerrilla soldiers whilst on a trek to a lost Inca city in the jungles of Northern Colombia. But she makes friends with some of her captors, in particular, a young girl solder, who reveals to Sarah her own harrowing story and leaves Sarah wrestling with the idea that her kidnappers may be more captive than herself.

Warren FitzGerald lives in London. His debut novel 'The Go-Away Bird' won an Amazon Rising Stars Award in the same year in 2010 and in 2011 was longlisted for The Authors’ Club Best First Book Award. It was also Waterstones’ Book of the Month in October 2011.