Have you ever felt like starting again,

witting your nine to five, skipping town and escaping to the desert island of your dreams?

Well, that's exactly what Jane Phil and their three kids did when they traded their English home for a tropical island they bought online at a bargain

price. But soon they all discovered that Paradise has its secrets because the locals claimed the islands belong to them and they say

it's been sold illegally. From Wundery this is the price of Paradise the real life

story of an island dream that turns into a living nightmare,

one which leads to kidnapping, corruption, and murder.

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A remote island off the coast of Nicaragua, an island that's been home to an English

family from Hampshire for the past seven months.

And for Jane Gaskin, this island has become her dream, her destiny.

There's no going back, she says, even if it all goes wrong and they end up penniless. But now as Jane looks at her three

children and her partner Phil, it's clear that something has gone terribly, terribly wrong. The Gaskin family is huddled together in a small fishing boat,

in the middle of the night dressed in soggy pyjamas, shivering, and looming over them three masked men.

Just an hour ago, Jane was putting the kids to bed, cleaning their teeth,

before they all crawled under their mosquito nets to sleep.

When an armed gang threw open the door

and marched them off their island and onto this boat.

But what is it they want? Jane and Phil don't know. She squeezes her

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