Lisa is a 14 year old girl from Utah. She is the typical teenage girl having blond hair and blue eyes and being 5.4 feet and very skinny . Every year she goes on a vacation to a house near the beach. She goes with her mom, dad and little brother. But she has a bedwetting problem which has been going on for almost a year now, and that won't go unnoticed this vacation.

Marty is caught stealing from his baby brother and gets a wake up call he will never forget. Marty's life is about to change on a huge level. This will be a long story. [All characters depicted in this story are all fictional, any names and/or references to real people are purely coincidental] © Copyright Protected • 2021 - 2022 This story supports Text To Speech.

Metanoia (n.) the journey of changing one's mind, heart, self or way of life. Part one Darcy Russo a nine year old girl living in a run down orphanage on the outskirts of Athens, Greece has had to fend for herself for the majority of her life. Being abandoned as a child and having to endure cruelty and abuse from those who were supposed to look after her has caused her to become untrusting and wary of others. Instead she seeks solace in nature, spending any and all free time exploring the wilderness and the ocean with her dog Bear. Although Darcy has accepted that she can only depend on herself, what happens when she finds out that she wasn't abandoned she was taken and her eight older brothers will stop at nothing to get her back. Part two After being kidnapped by the Russian mafia and tortured for years for information she doesn't have, Darcy Russo becomes cold and calculated. When the leader of the Russian mafia Ivan Volkov offers her a deal, train and work for him as an assassin or die, she can't exactly refuse. Being nicknamed 'Sin' by the underworld, she changes her identity and becomes a ruthless, efficient killer. But what happens when she is sent on a mission to destroy the family she once loved. Will she let the resentment she has for them for being the reason she was tortured take over or will she spare their lives? And what happens when she catches the attention of her brother's best friend.