Breathless. That's one way to describe it. Feeling nothing. Numb. Cold. I might as well be dead. I feel dead. But I also feel alive. Like I was hit by lightning. Like I am charged, with free voltage running through my veins. Powered by current. Urged by... By... Everything. Everyone. By him. this is the story of a girl who is attacked and seriously injured in an alley way by two strange men. one who had managed to bite her. a worker in the bar beside the alley finds her. she describes him as different. he smelt the blood. he saved her. or did she save him - from an eternity alone.

My name is Taya Jackson. I am 17 years old and I live in New York, I live with my parents and older sister, Mia. I have a normal life. I attend the local high school, I have a couple good friends and a boyfriend (Jacob). The only thing in my life which is different is that my father has a gambling problem and although he has been to counciling and tried to get help it is not yet under control. What makes my kidnapping story different from all the rest you see on the news is that I knew it was coming and I chose to go.