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description: Now updated with a new afterword Captive is an emotional ripped-from-the-headlines expos that lays bare the secretive cult that shocked the worldfor fans of Leah Reminis Troublemaker and Lawrence Wrights Going Clear.I am a mother whose child is being abused and exploited. And I am not alone. In 2011 former Dynasty star Catherine Oxenberg joined her daughter India at a leadership seminar for a new organization called NXIVM. Her then twenty-year-old daughter was on the threshold of starting her own professional life and they both thought this program might help her achieve her dream. But quickly Catherine saw a sinister side to the program that claimed to simply want to help its clients become the best versions of themselves. Catherine watched in horror as her daughter fell further and further down the rabbit hole falling under the spell of NXIVM's hypnotic leader Keith Raniere. Despite Catherines best efforts India was drawn deeper into the cult eventually joining an elite sorority of women members who were ordered to maintain a restricted diet recruit other women as slaves and were branded with their leaders initials. In Captive Catherine shares every parents worst nightmare and the lengths that a mother will go to save her child. Catherines efforts finally led the FBI to take noticeand the journey is not yet over. A powerful depiction of a mothers love and determination and with horrifying insider details never revealed in any news story Captive will keep you reading until the very last page.
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title: Captive: A Mother's Crusade to Save Her Daughter from the Terrifying Cult Nxivm
publisher: Simon  Schuster Audio