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Living Dead Girl opens with Alice’s chilling narration: "Once upon a time, I was a little girl who disappeared."
She was taken during a school field trip to an aquarium. Her abductor, Ray, is a master manipulator who has convinced her that her family no longer wants her, that she is worthless, and that she must do whatever he says to survive. The novel is not a thriller about escape; it is a psychological autopsy of captivity. Alice has stopped hoping. She is counting down the days until she turns fifteen, because Ray has told her that when she is "too old," he will kill her.
The book is intentionally vague on ages and locations, making it feel timeless and terrifyingly universal. It is loosely inspired by real-life cases like that of Kidnapping victim Jaycee Dugard, though Scott has stated she wrote it as a composite of many survivors’ stories.