Ellen EmersonWhite Mm • ffijfo i\ k^lHII $13.95 M,.eg had known that living in the White House was going to be hard, but she hadn't known how hard. The endless publicity, the suffocating presence of the Secret Service, and then the horror of the President— her mother—almost being assassinated. But now, Meg and her family are trying to get back to normal. If life in the White House could ever be normal. Its the end of Meg's senior year, she's getting ready for college, and her tennis game has never been better. Then, leaving school one afternoon, shots are fired, bodies start falling, and she is thrown into a speeding van. She wakes up in pain and darkness, in more trouble than she ever could have imagined. The man guarding her is capable of crippling violence one minute; surprising charm the next. Meg has to find levels of courage she's never had to use. That she isn't even sure she has. All she knows for sure is that she's in this alone. And, increasingly, that surviving might be even worse than the alternative. With keen perception and insight, Ellen Emerson White examines a girl's response to a terrifying experience in her follow-up to White House Autumn and The President s Daughter. ive UEEN Digitized by the Internet Archive in 2011 http://www.archive.org/details/longlivequeenOOwhit IP j& UEEN Ellen EmersonWhite m SCHOLASTIC HARDCOVER Scholastic Inc. New York Copyright © 1989 by Ellen Emerson White. All rights reserved. Published by Scholastic Inc. SCHOLASTIC HARDCOVER is a registered trademark of Scholastic Inc. No part of this publication may be reproduced in whole or in part, or stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise, without written permission of the publisher. For information regarding permission, write to Scholastic Inc. , 730 Broadway, New York, NY 10003. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data White, Ellen Emerson. Long live the queen. Summary: The President's daughter is a victim of kidnapping by terrorists. [1. Kidnapping—Fiction. 2. Terrorism—Fiction] I. Title. PZ7.W58274Lo 1989 [Fie] 8848558 ISBN 0-590-40850-X 12 11 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 9/8 12 3 4/9 Printed in the U.S.A. 37 First Scholastic printing, May 1989 For my editor, Jean Feiwel, who has always been swell