Escape!

For fans of The Hunger Games and The Man in the High Castle!

Abigail Henderson was a slave in the Empire of Truth and Light; a fascist country that was as bad as Nazi Germany but followed Moses’ instructions to the Israelites (Book of Numbers 31:17: Now, kill all the boys. And kill every woman who has slept with a man). After surviving a truly horrific processing, she was sold to Dr. Kurt Van Heflin, to be a companion to his blind granddaughter Inga Van de Clerk. It wasn’t long before she became more than just a slave; she became part of the family. Not too long after beginning school, Abigail encountered a bully who pushed her down the stairs, breaking her arm. Because her arm was bothering her one night she learned the family’s secret; Dr. Van Heflin was helping the resistance fighters! She offered to help and the doctor agreed.

What followed is a trilling and action-packed story of survival, resistance, love and search for safety amid a war that threatens to swallow the world.

Scott A. Ferguson was born in Shakopee, Minnesota. His father worked in commercial radio, which led the family to relocate around Southern Minnesota and Iowa until his father secured a job with the Voice of America in Washington, D.C. The family subsequently moved to Virginia, where Scott graduated from high school. In 1976, Scott commenced his career with the U.S. Secret Service. During his tenure there, he met his future wife, and they married in 1983. Over the course of more than 40 years, they raised two remarkable boys in Southern Maryland.