Description
Angela’s world shattered the night her mother walked out of a rundown motel and never returned. At just fifteen, abandoned with nothing but a name and a memory, Angela is forced to navigate the brutal streets of the city alone. No father. No help. No safety net. Just survival.
By seventeen, she’s hardened, street-smart, and emotionally numb—making money the only way she knows how. Until a violent encounter nearly takes her life. Left beaten and broken, she wakes up in a hospital and is pushed into a group home she never asked for. That’s where she meets Trisha—a girl who’s been hurt just as deeply, but who hasn’t let the world take away her softness.
For the first time in years, Angela breathes. Eats. Laughs. Feels. But when bills pile up and Trisha’s job disappears, the past starts knocking. A man named Adam—slick, powerful, and dangerous in a velvet-glove kind of way—offers Angela a way out. All she has to do is go back to doing what nearly killed her.
Angela tries to hold on to her new life, to the love she’s found in friendship, to the dreams she buried in pain. But the city doesn’t care about dreams. The city takes. And for girls like Angela, hope is a luxury… and survival has a price.
As her body moves forward and her soul clings to the past, Angela has to choose: Will she disappear like her mother did… or will she finally bloom, even in the dark?
