Twelve: A Memoir of Survival, Broken Silence, and Hope

"I was a statistic, a case file, a 'particularly vulnerable young girl who would suffer lifelong mental harm, ' but God had a plan."

She was twelve. He'd been planning it for months, maybe even years.

In 1985, a man Michelle's family trusted dictated a runaway note and made her copy it in her own handwriting. He took her and locked her in a wooden box beneath his waterbed.

For fifty days, Michelle survi...