Judy's Review:

I adored this book. Amelie is a survivor. Orphaned at a young age in Paris, she makes her way to London, determined to somehow get to college to study law. She has no money and lives virtually on the streets until she meets kind Carolyn, who becomes her benefactress, offering her a job and accommodation. Amelie begins to have a happy life, saving up to study for a Law Degree. Through Carolyn’s friends she meets billionaire Ned Hawthorpe who offers her a job on his glossy magazine.

Never having been on a plane before, naive young Amelie is dazzled when he takes her on a business trip to Las Vegas, and astonished when he offers her a lucrative deal: his parents are trying to force him into an arranged marriage. To get them off his back he tells Amelie that if she agrees to marry him in Vegas, he will annul the marriage after only weeks, and she will be free with $100,000 dollars in her bank account. Amelie, naive, motherless and only 21, agrees. She will be able to go to university after all.

Richard's Review:

Of course Ned’s offer is too good to be true, but Amelie is so blinded by the money she says yes. A BIG mistake, as she soon finds out.

This gripping thriller opens with a terrifying abduction. Amelie is taken from her bed in the dead of night and driven, blindfolded, to a distant location. There she’s locked up in total darkness. By now she’s discovered her new husband is a dangerous man and assumes he’s behind her abduction. But she soon discovers he’s been kidnapped too and hears him telling their unknown jailers that they should kill Amelie and set him free.

Like all BA Paris’s bestselling thrillers The Prisoner has a tense, twisting and complex plot. Chillingly addictive, you won’t want to put it down.