"As an American spy, you are worthy of death….’ With that, he drew his finger across his throat then slapped the hilt of the sword at his side. All time froze around me….In terror I watched the man’s hand fold around the hilt of the sword….”This is the true story of a young American missionary woman’s courage and triumph of faith in the jungles of New Guinea and her four years in a notorious Japanese prison camp. Never to see her husband again, she was forced to sign a confession to a crime she did not commit and face the executioner's sword, only to be miraculously spared.