Christian Science Monitor reporter Jill Carroll was one of the lucky ones.

Earlier this year, the freelance journo was kidnapped and held hostage in Iraq for 82 days. Her translator was killed during the abduction, and throughout it all, we hoped that she would not meet the same violent fate many abductees had met.

Thankfully, Jill lived to tell her tale.

And starting next week, she will share her story in an 11-part series set to appear in the Monitor entitled, “Hostage: The Jill Carroll Story.” You can read what Dave Cook, the Monitor’s Washington D.C. bureau chief had to say about the series here.