Taken

by Fiona Jenkins

A young mother and her baby are taken from their home in the dead of night. They are taken by a madman who seems to know them, and is dangerously infatuated with the young woman. She's tied up in the back of the van, unconscious, leaving the monster alone with her baby.

After taking them on a terrifying journey, stopping along the way and spending the nights in various places, including a corn field, he makes her leave her child in a strange place and takes her back on the road, terrorizing her with threats of killing her and the baby.

She knows that the end is near, but will it be the end of her agonizing ordeal or the end of her life?

Would she be able to save herself and her baby before it was too late? Or was it already too late?

195 pages, Kindle Edition

Published October 8, 2022

About the author

Fiona Jenkins was born and raised in the South. She moved to the Midwest when she was young and has made her home there ever since.
She has been writing since the 1990's but had put her writing on pause when her children were small.
During those precious but hectic years the manuscripts she had written were lost, and were only found recently when her husband was cleaning the attic.
Those old manuscripts sparked a fire in her again and she rediscovered her love of writing.
When she's not writing, or daydreaming about writing, she enjoys spending time with her large, loving family.
Her first published novel "Taken", is the first of many others she hopes to publish soon.

Reviews

[MaryKaye · Rating 3 out of 5]

I will give this book 3 stars for effort. 2 stars for storyline. 1 star for proofreading. There were so many mistakes! When Sharon went to the police station, the detective called her Sharon Louise Anderson, then in the same paragraph called her Sharon Armstrong? There are sentences that are not complete. There are typing errors, etc. This book had unnecessary dialog that I just skipped over.

[Sarah Wooten · Rating 1 out of 5]

I never write reviews but this book is complete trash. I have never seen so many spelling and grammatical errors, or incomplete words and sentences in my life. The author must be either illiterate or blind because I don’t think something this horrible could otherwise be written even before seeing an editor. She also goes back and forth calling the main character two different names throughout the entire book. The book has potential to be decent at most. The plot is meh; the ending is completely rushed. This was so hard to finish. Save your time and money and skip this one.

[Candis · Rating 4 out of 5]

new author, no regrets

I found this book through a facebook book lover page, and I’m glad I did. It’s a really interesting storyline, with some twists. Please consider trigger warnings of domestic and r@pe attempts. I only wished that Sharon got revenge on either one, because that would’ve been icing on the cake!

[Cammy · Rating 5 out of 5]

This book had me on the edge of my seat! I read it in two days. It was absolutely fantastic. I could barely put it down to go to sleep!

If you enjoy books that you can read in one sitting and that you can’t get enough of, then this is the book for you.

[Michelle Skill · Rating 2 out of 5]

Don’t waste your time

I had a very hard time finishing this book. There are so many misspellings and grammatical errors. Where is an editor?

Plot meehhh at best

Story took way too long to build up then rush to end.

[Bonnie Mason · Rating 4 out of 5]

This was a good book, held my attention and I was waiting to see where it was heading. My only suggestion is that your editing company do a better job as there were a lot of typos! 😊