Captive: A Mother's Crusade to Save Her Daughter from the Terrifying Cult Nxivm

by Catherine Oxenberg, Natasha Stoynoff (Editor)

Overview

Including a new afterword, Captive is an emotional, ripped-from-the-headlines exposé that lays bare the inner workings of the secretive NXIVM cult that shocked the world.

I am a mother whose child is being abused and exploited. And I am not alone.

In 2011, former Dynasty star Catherine Oxenberg joined her daughter, India, at a leadership seminar for a new organization called NXIVM. Her then twenty-year-old daughter was on the threshold of starting her own professional life and they both thought this program might help her achieve her dream. But quickly, Catherine saw a sinister side to the program that claimed to simply want to help its clients become the best versions of themselves.

Catherine watched in horror as her daughter fell further and further down the rabbit hole, falling under the spell of NXIVM's hypnotic leader, Keith Raniere. Despite Catherine’s best efforts, India was drawn deeper into the cult, eventually joining an elite “sorority” of women members who were ordered to maintain a restricted diet, recruit other women as “slaves,” and were branded with their leader’s initials.

In Captive, Catherine shares every parent’s worst nightmare, and the lengths that a mother will go to save her child. Catherine’s efforts finally led the FBI to take notice—and the journey is not yet over. A powerful depiction of a mother’s love and determination, and with horrifying insider details never revealed in any news story, Captive will keep you reading until the very last page.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781982100667
Publisher:	Gallery Books
Publication date:	07/02/2019
Pages:	416
Sales rank:	393,772
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 8.90(h) x 1.10(d)

About the Author

Catherine Oxenberg is best known for her role as Amanda Carrington on the hit primetime soap opera Dynasty. She got her start as a model before making her acting debut in The Royal Romance of Charles and Diana. Oxenberg is the daughter of Princess Elizabeth of Yugoslavia, making her a royal descendent in her own right. She currently lives in Malibu, California.

Table of Contents

Prologue xvii

Introduction: India And Me: Our Search For Meaning xxi

Part 1 Losing India 1

1 The Guru And Gold Sash 3

2 Love Bombing And Epiphanies 23

3 The Defiant Ones 41

4 The Great Oz Has Spoken 55

5 Two Roads Diverged 67

6 Sex, Lies, And Videotape 83

7 Human Pain And Bliss 103

Part 2 Saving India 123

8 Awakenings 125

9 An Intervention Party 147

10 Expians And Exodus 161

11 Gangsta Moms 185

12 Cue The Flying Monkeys 203

13 The Ring Of Fire 219

14 Battle Cry 237

15 D-Day Or Doomsday 261

16 A Passage To India 289

17 Captured 311

18 Persephone's Dilemma 335

Acknowledgments 351

Resources 355

Afterword 357