The Boy Without a Name

Title: The Boy Without a Name
Genre: YA Psychological Drama / Thriller with Romantic and Coming-of-Age elements
Setting: United States, early 1980s

Description:
He was taken when he was three.
Raised by a nameless gang, taught only one thing: lure the girls. Make them trust you.
Then disappear.

Sixteen-year-old Jace doesn't know what a normal life looks like. He's never been to school. Never seen a movie. Never known a family that didn't trade children for money.

He doesn't know right from wrong-only the rules that kept him alive.

Until his last assignment.

The girl-Anneliese-is unlike the others. She asks questions he doesn't know how to answer. She doesn't run when he forgets how to lie. And worst of all... she makes him feel.

When the mission begins to unravel, Jace is forced to confront a truth that was never meant for him:

He was a victim, too.

Caught between the only life he's ever known and the fragile new world he's beginning to see, Jace must make a choice: stay in the shadows, or risk everything for a freedom he doesn't understand-and a girl who might not survive him.

The Boy Without a Name is a raw and tender story about stolen childhoods, impossible guilt, and the quiet, defiant power of choosing your own future-even if you've never had one before.