CHAPTER ONE: The Call

When her mother left the day before her seventeenth birthday, the only gift Elara was given was a goal. She was determined that day to prove one thing; she was better than that. She promised to devote herself to her school, take care of her brokenhearted father, and become a psychologist determined to help others. When her brother lands himself in prison due to gang activity and uses his one phone call to get a hold of his younger sister, Elara must make a bargain with the leader in exchange for bail money. The bargain consists of her becoming official gang-bait, the leader's new pet, and being thrust into a life she'd never expected to set eyes on.

Mature for language, sexual themes, and violence.