**Please note: this book contains adult language and situations.From the outside looking in, she had the life most people dream of. Beautiful home, fancy clothes, expensive trips all over the country, but she would have given it all away, to escape the pain of a loveless existence. 18 years old & on the run with her first true love, she was about to find out these city streets can be much more deadly & dangerous than what she was running from. That girl was my mother, and this is her story.