Book excerpt: Doll and the Blenders are visiting Mongolia when two of them, Al and Larry, find themselves mistakenly kidnapped in an elaborate ransom plot by mystery men who think they took two executives. When Doll is unable to get help from the police, she decides it is up to her to find her friends. Before long, as Al and Larry struggle to survive in the wilds of Mongolia, Doll, assisted by her fiancé and one of the other Blenders, races against time and the elements to discover where her friends are. Will she find them before they disappear into the desert?