First Lines Fridays is a weekly feature for book lovers hosted by Wandering Words. What if instead of judging a book by its cover, its author or its prestige, we judged it by its opening lines?

• Pick a book off your shelf (it could be your current read or on your TBR) and open to the first page
• Copy the first few lines, but don’t give anything else about the book away just yet – you need to hook the reader first
• Finally… reveal the book!

The young woman troll street littered with trash and seedy people, scanning for a buyer.  You watch intently as she bends down to talk to a man who pulled his car up to the curb where she’s waiting.  You wonder how she got there and how she can do what she does.  Suddenly, she notices you watching her.  All she wants is to be like you because she’s long since forgotten who she is.

She barely resembles a real person.  She’s convinced that there is no way out and that she faces a bleak future.

Eleven- year-old Maggie Clarke is abducted from her loving family and thrust into the indescribably horrific and largely unknown underworld of human sex trafficking. In captivity, Maggie’s life turns into a nightmare most children couldn’t imagine. When Maggie isn’t being sold to clients, she focuses on caring for Seth, a young boy who was also abducted

With the help of Detective Rae Harker, the Clarkes’ frantically search for their daughter. Haunted by his own demons, Detective Harker vows to find Maggie–dead or alive

Years after Maggie is abducted, a strange man approaches her with a dangerous proposition and she risks everything to break free of the network of unsavory characters that control her. Not even she can know how far she will go to get even with the people who ruined her life

An unforgettable story of courage and survival, One Among Us serves as an eye-opening reminder that horrible things can happen to anyone–it’s how people deal with their circumstances that matters

**WARNING** 18+ Readers Only. Graphic content and subject matter. (This is a standalone novel)

Happy Friday everyone