A Flower in the Concrete
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Haven Thames had it rough. She lived with an addicted mother, was forced to prostitute due to the debt crushing them both by her mother's dealer, and was miserable. She had given up a long time ago.
A boy that she knew once comes to her school from an alternative program, and he apparently has an eye out for her. She tried at first to block it out in fear of him getting hurt.
It's easier said than done.
Haven now is more open and vulnerable than ever before. With police cracking down on her, her mother becoming even more daring, her 'boss' getting hostile, and the son of a police officer having an eye for her. . . She doesn't know what to do.
She questions her existence, her sanity, her mother, and even her boyfriend.
"How can you love someone like me?"
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