Eighteen-year-old Brinn Hathaway has survived on her own in the Northwest High Country of Georgia since she was left for dead in a shallow grave by the man who kidnapped her as a child. When a young nature photographer, Justin Spencer, catches the wild girl on film and the two form a tentative friendship, Brinn must decide if coming out of hiding is worth the hope-and the danger-that may await her. Winner of the 2013 HOLT Medallion Award for Outstanding Literary Fiction Winner of the 2012 National Excellence for Romance Fiction Awards (NERFA) in the YA Category. Follow Brinn, Justin, Cody, and a cast of new characters through a series of novellas. Each story will bring a new adventure, another crime to solve, and more danger for Brinn and company as they delve into the world of human trafficking. See my website for details and links! http://www.pjsharon.com/books FINDING HOPE, Book One of the Savage Cinderella Novella series, picks up a year after Brianna Hathaway's return from the wild. As she and Justin struggle to work through her recovery, Brinn must come to terms with who she is and discover her place in this strange new world. When Cody asks for her help in solving a kidnapping case for the FBI, it brings her worst nightmares to the surface. But will it be what she needs to finally put it all behind her and move on? Or will it lead her down a path into a dangerous world? A child is missing...and time is running out.

!!!!STORY MOVED TO AMAZON EBOOKS~ ONLY 4 CHAPTERS AVAILABLE!!!!Ellie Coleman comes from the poor side of town. When she becomes best friends with Knox Hendrix, quarterback at Ole Miss and the pride of Stanford her life changes. Used to being ignored by the town and her parents she finds herself opening up to Knox and his family. When Knox has to leave for school he asks her to go with him. Ellie refuses after a talk with his mother that destroys her illusion of her friends acceptance of her. She leaves to make it on her own, sick of her parents and her home town. Four years pass and she fights her way to get a job as an intern at ESPN television, while studying journalism at a local college. When Knox comes to the station for an interview he sees the girl who ran away with his heart. When she sees him she ignores the pain of his betrayal does her job. What happens when she discovers that the thing that kept them apart for four years was a lie? (slowly being edited) :) © All Rights Reserved. 2013. cover done by @KellyLM