As a daughter of an FBI agent, Katie knows the basics of child abduction prevention: don't talk to strangers, don't get into a car with anyone you don't know, and don't piss off Midas. But Dad broke the last rule, and now Katie is left to pay for it. Just days after her fifteenth birthday, Katie is taken by Midas, the most elusive and efficient kidnapper the FBI has ever seen. None of Midas's victims have ever been found dead or alive, and it does not take long for Katie to find out why. Midas dumps Katie into a compound filled with his other 'trophies, ' children he has kidnapped, ransomed, and abandoned to the elements. The thin green armband around Katie's wrist separates her from the other kids, marking her as valuable, but once Midas is through extorting Katie's father, she will become as expendable as the others. Katie now has to choose whether to merely survive or risk her life trying to escape. "I picked up this book a year after my whole family had read it and I spent the whole week staying up far too late reading because I got so deeply invested into the lives of Katie and Jared. I may have done some shouting at the book here and there. I have started the second one fully knowing that I will have to wait for the next one after." -Amazon Reviewer "I was on the verge of walking away from YA books forever when I came across Surviving Midas and I am so glad I gave it a chance. Surviving Midas is a suspenseful, gripping, page-turner that takes the cliché tropes plaguing most YA novels and throws them to the wind!" -Amazon Reviewer "A conspiracy with roots deep in the government, the kidnapped daughter of an FBI agent, a brilliant young man and the sister he's fighting a hopeless battle to keep alive in a prison camp, and over it all the ruthless, enigmatic Midas who leaves entire fresh graveyards in his wake on his quest for more power: these are the ingredients of the riveting tour de force survival tale Hague has cooked up." -Andrew Rucker Jones, Author "I LOVED this book. It hit me in all the right places, and it was one of those books where I kept thinking about it when I had to put it down." -Kade Broersma, Literary Editor