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July 2011
On Sale: June 21, 2011
426 pages ISBN: 1461105676 EAN: 9781461105671 Kindle: B005D1T6CO Paperback / e-Book
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Suspense | Thriller
Alessa is just seven years old when her uncle rapes her for
the first time. As the years pass, his sexual appetite
becomes more voracious and his perversion more twisted,
until the abuse has become almost a daily ritual, with the
unspoken involvement of the girl's mother.
At the age of sixteen, after the death of her only
friend, Alessa finds herself at the mercy of her
real–life monster, with no relief in sight. She flees
her home to escape this hell, only to find herself
descending into a more dangerous one. Alone and helpless in
the streets of North Philadelphia, she encounters more human
predators who want to take over her life and devour her.
About to hit rock bottom, Alessa manages to break away from
her new tormentors and finds refuge in a shelter for
homeless and abused women.
Wherever she goes, however, trouble keeps seeking her
out, until she meets three people who change the course of
her life forever. Though Alessa's bittersweet journey is
perpetually fraught with challenges, she does, nevertheless,
manage to find fleeting moments of joy along the way. But as
she begins to settle down, a ghost from the past comes to
haunt her again, threatening to destroy the very foundation
of her small world and plunging her back into an abyss of
despair, until she makes her final bid for escape.
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