This is the story of a small-town girl raised in the Missouri Bootheel, enduring abuse and neglect as a child and dismissed by those in power that should have protected her. She encounters the unjust racial disparity because she finds love in a boy who doesn't fit the description of acceptable by her mother and stepfather. Therefore, she is forced into a relationship that will change her life forever. Through it all, she never gives up and never loses hope that she will one day rise above it all and escape the horrors of her reality.
This is the story of a small-town girl raised in the Missouri Bootheel, enduring abuse and neglect as a child and dismissed by those in power that should have protected her. She encounters the unjust racial disparity because she finds love in a boy who doesn't fit the description of acceptable by her mother and stepfather. Therefore, she is forced into a relationship that will change her life forever. Through it all, she never gives up and never loses hope that she will one day rise above it all and escape the horrors of her reality.
