Tessa is a young girl caught in what appears to be a helpless situation. Abused and forced to help her father make and sell drugs, she sees no way out. When she did attempt to escape she was caught and forced to return home. Who can she trust?
She must not only deal with home situation, she discovers her family’s dark secret. This secret haunts her as she is fighting for her own survival.
When neighbors open their home to her she begins to feel hope and begins to think that her life is worthwhile after all. She discovers that God does love her in spite of what she has done. She realizes that He is there for her and reaches out to Him. She can see that her new found life can positively impact her father and he stops his illegal activities. What he does next proves that no one can sink too far in the depths of sin that God cannot or will not reach down an lift them out.
I found myself cheering for Tessa and her family as their new lives emerge. I also felt the need to pray for the many of today’s teens and young people who find themselves caught in horrible and frightening situations. Ms. Wiltrout has written a realistic book without “preaching”. I highly recommend this book to teens and their parents and to anyone who works closely with today’s youth.
I received a complementary copy of this book from Life Sentence Publishing in exchange for an honest review. The opinions expressed in this review are solely mine.
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