Daisy Among Thorns

For all of her thirteen years, Maria has survived the unforgiving streets of one of America's toughest neighborhoods. Behind closed doors, her foster home is no better-ruled by the cruel hands of a man who never gave her love, only bruises. Yet in the cracks of that broken world, Maria becomes something rare: a light in the darkness. Known on the streets as Daisy, a name whispered with respect and warmth, she uses the little she earns tutoring struggling kids to buy supplies, food, and hope for those even more forgotten than she is.

But when her foster parent suddenly dies, Maria is ripped from the only life she's ever known and thrust into one she never imagined-into the care of a mother she never met, and seven older brothers she didn't know existed. They live in a house with enough walls to echo, enough secrets to drown in, and more love than Maria knows what to do with.

Now, as Maria navigates new dreams, unfamiliar safety, and the confusion of trying to belong, she begins to unravel a family history darker than her own past-and a future that might finally be hers, if she's brave enough to claim it.

Daisy Among Thorns is a powerful story of resilience, found family, and the quiet strength of a girl who has always fought for others-now learning how to fight for herself.

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