the book is based on Laura her husband Geoffrey and there two young children, they are happy, content and have everything a family could wish for, Geoffrey successful in his job, the two have built a beautiful home, nothing could be more perfect when terror and horror strike all the members of the family . Would any of them survive the ordeal they are to be faced with, ever live normal lives, trapped and terrified, have there lives snatched away, Gwen Lauras mother plays a huge role in this story of love, fright, sadness, to have such horror happen to people so young, with there whole lives before them, and to have life taken away from you for such a sheer moment, where is the path of true light, or do we have to live in hell.