Carissa Phelps

In this book is a story of triumph and a fierce determination to give back. The author was a runner. By twelve, she had run away from home, dropped out of school, and fled blindly into the arms of a brutal pimp, who made her walk the hard streets of central California. But even when she escaped him, she could not outrun the crushing inner pain of abuse, neglect, and abandonment. With little to hope for, she expected to end up in prison, or worse....

In the United States alone, hundreds of thousands of children are being enslaved and sold for sex. These children are then sold an average of 15 times a day, 6 days a week, totaling 14,040 sex acts a year. The fastest growing and second largest criminal industry in the world today, it generates $9.8 billion. California is one of the biggest hotspots for domestic and international human trafficking because of its large metropolitan population, international...