Nineteen-year-old Chris Cander is studying abroad in Madrid when a stranger locks her inside his car and drives her far outside the city. Alone in an abandoned industrial area with a knife pressed to her neck, Chris realizes the man intends to kill her, and decides "I'm not going to die like this." In this remarkable story of survival, Chris reveals how one terrifying night has quietly shaped the strong, fearless life she built afterward.

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