Stolen Chapter Summary

Stolen by Lucy Christopher initially takes place in the Bangkok airport, but the majority in the novel takes place in a remote desert in Australia. The main characters are, a 16 year old girl named Gemma Toombs, the protagonist, and 24 year old man, Ty, the antagonist, his real name being Tyler MacFarlane. The novel starts off with Gemma in Bangkok airport, waiting for her next flight. Ty is from Australia and takes her from the airport to Australia. They end up in the middle of the Great Sandy Desert in the Australian outback, where nobody can be found for hours. Tyler then brings her to a house he has built in the middle of that desert, making her stay there.
Tyler MacFarlane is a very troubled person, leading him to kidnap Gemma after stalking

This is where she meets Ty, and he offers to buy her a coffee, and ends up drugging it to kidnap her. The conflict of this novel is that Gemma is kidnapped by her stalker, and she is stuck in the middle of a remote Australian desert, which Ty calls the Great Sandy Desert, and struggles to get away so she can go back home to London. She also finds out that there are no people for hours, so there’s no point in trying to escape. The other main conflict is how Gemma feels emotionally for Tyler. Although it’s not as big and obvious as the conflict of being kidnaped and in a remote area, as well as trying to escape, it’s an important detail to this novel. Throughout the novel, Gemma struggles to identify with her feelings about Ty, because she always says that he’s basically a psycho monster, but also thinks he’s attractive and eventually doesn’t want to be separated from him, as well as slowly falling in love with him. The rising action in Stolen is when Gemma gets bitten by a snake after following Tyler out to the Separates, leading her to freak out and get bitten by a poisonous snake that he was trying to catch. Although Ty has antivenom that he stole from a research lab, it fails to work on Gemma leading him to take her to the nearest area with a doctor, which is a mine site hours away. Ty has the camel carry Gemma on its back until they reach the car, in which he lets the camel go free, and drives to the mine site. Once they get to the mine site, he rushes Gemma to a doctor in which they take her to a better hospital in Australia. The climax of the novel is when Ty is arrested by the hospital security in Australia and taken to the prison because he kidnapped her, which leads to a trial in which Ty pleads not guilty. These events lead to Gemma having to see psychiatrists after getting out